JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

We’ve just released the fresh IntelliJ IDEA update version 8.1.1

You’re welcome to see what has been fixed and grab the fresh update off the shelf.

Meet another fresh demo about IntelliJ IDEA Flex support. This time we’re showing how to quickly setup and configure a project for using Flex I18n. In this example we’re creating a multilingual Flex application with the use of advanced features like run-time locale switching.

You can watch this demo right now or download it for offline viewing as a zip archive.

IntelliJ IDEA 8.1 brings you many new and improved Flex support features:

• New intention actions
• Improved code editing and generation
• Better code completion with Flash 10 Generics
• And more.

We have also created a live demo that shows the advanced IntelliJ IDEA Flex support features in action: smart Flex code completion, Flex code analysis with quick-fixes, Flex refactoring, convenient project navigation and usage search. You can watch it now or download archive for offline viewing.

We’ve created a new IntelliJ IDEA demo: BlazeDS Support. It shows you how to create, run and debug BlazeDS applications with IntelliJ IDEA, and covers a wide variety of features — project configuration, run and deployment configurations, debugger and the others.

We’ve ran a small What’s Your Favorite IDE questionnaire at the recent QCon event, which also was a lottery with one and only prize — an Amazon certificate worth £100.

Today we’re happily announcing the winner, picked by our answer machine after we’ve tossed the entire bunch of answer cards into it.

And, the winner is Gary Lloyd from Nominet.

Congratulations, Gary and good luck with your favorite IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, that …handles big projects better than other IDEs.

IntelliJ IDEA 8.1 brings you a full-fledged voice control plugin to help you code even faster than before.

Now you can associate a voice command with any action — just like a keyboard or mouse shortcut, and IntelliJ IDEA will literally listen to you, immediately carrying out the required action when you speak the magic words.


To see this feature in action, watch this short live demo we have prepared for you.

We’ve created a short live demo, showing some of IntelliJ IDEA Flex support features during the process of creating a simple Hello World with Flex from scratch. The demo explains how to create and configure a project, author the code and run your (probably first) Flex application. You can watch the demo online or download a zip archive. If you need more information about IntelliJ IDEA Flex support, see this feature page.

Fresh news, everyone! Hope you share our point of view on new features: there’s simply never enough of them. And performance: you can always get more of it. This is why we’re happy to tell you that IntelliJ IDEA 8.1 is just released. It’s been a really short time since we aired version 8, but thanks to working six days a week without lunch breaks we managed to deliver you this bunch of improvements:

• Performance of file and compiler caches
• Easy sharing of settings with IntelliJ IDEA Server
• Team Foundation Server
• Git
• Perforce jobs support
• Oracle SQL dialect
• Resin application server
• and more

Get your hands on this first JetBrains release of 2009: download your copy of IntelliJ IDEA 8.1

If you already own version 8, this release is free of charge for you. If you still don’t — it’s a good time to apply for an upgrade. If you’re a newcomer, you are encouraged to try it for 30 days, before you decide to buy it, or apply for a free open source or classroom license.

We’re glad to announce the winners of the 3rd JetBrains IDEAL Plugin Contest!
First of all we want to thank everyone who participated for their efforts and, of course, the plugins they have submitted. It was really exciting to examine every last submission. JetBrains staff, and especially the Contest Jury, had many pleasant and memorable moments reviewing and judging them all. The Contest Jury spent hours and hours in a sealed room, and we did our best keeping them in until every last prize was assigned.

Grand Prize and Second Prize

1. Code Navigator by Frank Gerberding, Germany
   A hands-down number one this year.
2. Code-Amnesia by Shmulik London, Israel
   When there’s a number one, there’s always a number two. It’s natural.

Five Honorable Mention Winners

All of these do stand out from the crowd.

• hg4idea by Victor Iacoban, Canada
• IvyIDEA by Guy Mahieu, Belgium
• Osmorc by Robert F. Beeger, Germany
• reVu by Sylvain FRANCOIS, France
• Script Monkey by Siddique Hameed, USA

Note: All of this year’s Honorable Mention winners receive equal prizes of USD 1,000. The five runner-ups following the Second Prize were all so close in merit that our jury decided to award 5 equal prizes. The monetary amount of the 3rd Prize, the Team Leader’s Choice, and the original Three Honorable Mention awards - plus USD 1,000 - were split evenly among them.

Also, this year’s special award titled The Most Addictive Plugin goes to Code Consultant by Nathan Voxland, USA. And by saying the most addictive, we mean it. Just try it and see for yourself

More detailed info about the contest, the rules, the winners, etc., can be found here: http://plugins.intellij.net/.

As you know, IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 has brought you a full-fledged SQL editor to make the database development a real pleasure.

If you’ve been too busy to read about all the countless new release features, visit the SQL editor page, or even the complete new features list to fill up the gaps.

Today’s news is that we’ve created a live demo that gives an overview of the core SQL editor features:

• Coding assistance, with code completion,
• Multiple SQL dialect support with syntax highlighting,
• Built-in instant query runner,
• and some more.

This demo (also available in zip format for offline viewing) gives you directions to begin exploring IntelliJ IDEA SQL support and is no doubt a good starter for anyone who plans to use this Java IDE for database applications development.

And the last, but not least — the upcoming version 8.1 (due for release in February) will bring you more SQL dialects, along with further extended coding assistance and some other new and improved features, so stay in tune with release news.

To try SQL with IntelliJ IDEA right away, get a free 30 day evaluation, or join the EAP program.