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Did you know that IntelliJ IDEA 11 provides an integrated Play Framework console?

Start it from “Tools” menu, complete Play! commands, use command history, analyze output.
Play! with pleasure!

Spring Integration extends Spring to support the well-known Enterprise Integration Patterns via lightweight messaging within Spring-based applications and supports integration with external systems via declarative adapters.

Just wanted to let you know that in IntelliJ IDEA 11 we’ve added support for all 21 integration schemes with code analysis, completion, usages search and basic refactorings.

Latest Spring 3.1 features can be easily found in IntelliJ IDEA 11 release.

If you’ve already started testing your applications with @Configuration classes and environment profiles, tell us how it works for you in IntelliJ IDEA.

Spring 3.1 significantly extends @Configuration based applications with a set of new annotations responsible for processing of Spring models

@ComponentScan configures component scanning directives for use with @Configuration classes. Provides support parallel with Spring XML’s <context:component-scan> element

@Import indicates one or more @Configuration classes to import. Provides functionality equivalent to the <import/> element in Spring XML.

@ImportResource indicates one or more resources containing bean definitions to import.

@PropertySource providing a convenient and declarative mechanism for adding a PropertySource to Spring Environment.

@Profile indicates that a component is eligible for registration when one or more specified profiles are active.

IntelliJ IDEA 11 adds support for one of the most voted issues: Play! framework.

Please, have a look at how you could play in IntelliJ IDEA:

What else? Watch other short screencasts of specific features:

• custom tags *{completion, navigation, inspections, quick fixes}*
• internationalization (i18n)
• templates navigation
• built-in tags and parameters completion
• templates structure view
• commenter (Ctrl+/) and block commenter (Ctrl+Shift+/)
• tags folding and brace matching for EL, actions, scripts
• syntax highlighting, navigation, expressions resolve, completion
• and more…

Spring JPA is a part of the Spring Data project that makes it easy to quickly implement JPA-based repositories.

IntelliJ IDEA 11 recognizes repositories,
provides quick navigation through the code,

adds advanced completion, error highlighting and quick fixes.

Download IntelliJ IDEA 11 Beta and try it.

If you’ve already launched IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 you probably noticed this  “green notification” asking your permission to send information to JetBrains about your IntelliJ IDEA project configuration (which frameworks are used and which are not) and feature usage statistics (e.g. how often extract method refactoring is used).

We just want to say that this information is VERY important for us and will help us concentrate our efforts exactly on the tools and technologies that you really use.

Analyzing your “productivity” statistics (Help | Productivity Guide) can help us discovering some useful but rarely used actions and refactorings and publish more posts and tutorials about them.

If you’ve originally disabled this feature, we kindly ask you to think again and, if you change your mind, you can switch it ON in IDE Settings | Usage Statistics section.

All the data sent to JetBrains is anonymous and does not contain any personal information.

Thanks for all the stats!
The IntelliJ IDEA Team

Yes! The sunny Spring has finally come to St.Petersburg too. However, it’s not that “Spring” we want to talk now…

We realize that many of you use the Spring framework in your every day work. So, many should be interested in the new Spring-related features that can be found in the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 release.

1. Better navigation between xml configs and annotated stereotype components

2. Advanced usage search for @Autowired beans

3. More inspections for your configs, for instance, deprecated classes and members highlighting.

4. More powerful placeholder support. All spring model inspections get and analyze placeholder values before highlighting.

5. More clear Bean Dependencies Graph view. For instance, it obtains beans and dependencies from custom namespaces. Check out this spring integration schemas example.

There are also smaller changes here and there…

Download IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 RC to try it and enjoy the improved Spring framework support.

Spring 3.1 “c-namespace” facility is now supported in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 with code completion, error highlighting, quick fixes and code generation.

Grab the fresh IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 EAP build 106.561, check the release notes and send us your feedback.

Happy Easter Holidays!

With the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 you can try one of the most requested Spring 3.1 feature — environment profiles for application contexts.

1. Active profile names are shown in the top of text editor. Inactive profiles are grayed. Configuration errors and warnings (incorrect classes, properties, etc.) are shown for “active” and “inactive” profiles. “Resolve” problems are highlighted for active profiles only.

2. Active profile can be easily changed by clicking the “Change Profiles” link.

3. Usages search and rename refactoring work in xml configs, @Profile and java code.

Try these new features in the latest IntelliJ IDEA EAP build and let us know how they work for you.

As a side note, we encourage you to help us even more by allowing the IntelliJ IDEA usage statistics to be sent to us. If you had disabled it initially you can change your mind in IDE Settings | Usage Statistics. Thanks for your support!