It is sometimes the case, you can create plugins you want to preserve for internal use only. With
IntelliJ IDEA you can maintain your own enterprise repository to share your plugins with team members solely.To create a repository, we need a Web server, where our plugins will reside, and a descriptor of available plugins (updatePlugins.xml), […]

Yesterday the results of JetBrains’ annual contest for the best plug-in to IntelliJ IDEA were announced. 7 plug-ins were selected by the jury composed of IntelliJ IDEA development team members. Their respective authors will take away great cash and software prizes. The names of the winners are listed on the dedicated Plug-ins Site. There you […]

We’re glad to announce that Sixth and Red River Software have just released the GuiceyIDEA plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. This plugin adds support for Guice, the freshly released Google’s lightweight dependency injection framework for Java 5.
It’s really amazing that Sixth and Red River Software guys managed to develop the plugin in only a week after […]

Ruby plugin for IntelliJ IDEA was recently beefed up with several new features:

Quick creating of controller actions with alt+insert
Go to action from view template with gutter navigation icon
Go to view template from action with gutter navigation icon
Ruby and Rails Live Templates

See the Live Rails Demo that shows the latest features and improvements […]

Our team has published the first implementation of Ruby plugin that turns IntelliJ IDEA into a decent IDE for developing Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications.
Despite it’s in beta stage as of yet, it has recevied very positive feedback from Marty Andrews, the professional Ruby developer.
The plugin feature highlights are very impressive as well:

Dedicated […]

As you might recall, IntelliLang plugin had won two awards at the recently held IntelliJ IDEAL Plugin Contest.
IntelliLang extends the support of custom languages and regular expressions in IntelliJ IDEA with:

Language Injection Support: IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 can treat String literals, XML text and attributes as fragments of an arbitrary language. IntelliLang lets you use Java […]

There are roughly three hundreds of various extensions in the IntelliJ IDEA plugin repository .
Plugins are grouped by about thirty different categories, which is very comfy and lets you easily find an extension that adds the functionality you personally need to your favorite IDE.
Today I want to tell you about the Key Promoter plugin […]

Today, on September 1st we’re proud to announce the launch of the first ever IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Contest.
Anyone who ever wrote an IntelliJ IDEA plugin, or is just planning to start, can win cash and software prizes valued at over $25,000.
Be first to prove yourself worthy, hone you skills, enhance your favorite […]

IntelliJ IDEA features excellent support for XML development. Smart editor with code completion, error highlighting and other productivity aimed features help create efficient code. However, there is no limit in perfecting the development environment.
XPathView plugin extends IntelliJ IDEA XML and XSL support by providing for:

Instant XPath evaluation
Get the fully qualified XPath expression that identifies […]

Peter Gromov, one of IntelliJ IDEA developers, shares his knowledge about utilizing IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 XML DOM power in the field of plugin authoring.
Peter wrote the article that describes the key principles of working with XML data through this DOM and quickly outlines how it can be used to empower and simplify plugin development with […]