Naming conventions were subject to many local corporate wars, and probably any developer heard phrases like “These underscores before private field names just look ugly!” One more problem with naming conventions is constant changes in the code (if you convert a local variable to a field, will you rename it?). And of course, developers often […]

People often ask us: “How do you know when the product is ready for release”? For TeamCity one of the important conditions was that it had to be able to run off-line inspections on the entire IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 source code.
This was quite a challenging task: IntelliJ IDEA includes more than 30.000 various classes. […]

IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 features numerous enhancements for making Java EE development easier and more productive.
EJB relationship diagram builder brings valuable bonus to those who use Hibernate annotations for defining data models in their applications. All the power of the EJB diagram builder is at your disposal. You can get the complete picture of how your […]

As a developer, you certainly get exceptions from users or QA engineers. And unlike the exceptions that you get in the debug mode, they don’t have those nice links that help you to navigate to source.

JetBrains has announced the list of new features in IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 some time ago, but people often ask us where to find or how to use a certain feature. Probably, in this case Reviewer’s Guide can help. Don’t be afraid of the document title, since it is actually an overview of the new functionality […]

Running a beta of IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 on a preview release of JDK 1.6.0

While you develop and maintain your product, the framework and API on which your product is based on is also being developed and upgraded. This is why the other day you come to a point when you need to switch to a new API.

IntelliJ IDEA makes it very easy to surround a code block with if, while, for and other statements or to make a code block become part of such statments as try/catch or synchronized. Simply select the code block to surround (don’t forget to use Ctrl + W to increase the current selection) and then press […]

When you open a tag, IntelliJ IDEA assists you by automatically inserting the closing tag. This is really handy and helps avoid certain errors, but when you are typing a text and, say, want to highlight a couple of words with bold, the </b> tag which is inserted just after <b> makes you press […]

IntelliJ IDEA is aware of the Spring beans that are part of your project. If you apply Find Usages on a property setter method, for example Customer#setLastName(), and there is a Spring bean of the matching type and with the matching property being declared in a Spring XML file, IntelliJ IDEA will find it and […]