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 […]

Note   Contributed by: Esko Luontola
Probably, you already know about IntelliJ IDEA TODO window that finds your “TODO” comments and helps you quickly navigate to them. But did you know that you can work not only with TODO comments, but with any custom pattern?
For example, when you create a quick fix for a problem and […]

In forthcoming IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 release a new tool will be available. It aims to measure the code coverage for your unit tests or tests written as simple applications with the main() method.

Edit XML with pleasure!

Two nice tricks for navigating to a class by name (Ctrl + N). Find out how to quickly find a class that ends with particular symbols.
How to match the end of a class name in IntelliJ when using Goto Class
Even simpler end of class matching in IntelliJ
Of course, these tricks can be used for other […]

Along with the basic code completion, IntelliJ IDEA provides so-called “smart completion” that can be considered as a separate feature that is far more intelligent than simple completion.

On top of anonymous bookmarks (F11 to toggle between activate/deactivate, Shift-F11 to manage), IntelliJ IDEA provides so called numbered bookmarks. What this mean is that on any line of any file managed by IntelliJ IDEA (Java, HTML, XML, JDK source files, etc.), you can define a bookmark that is identified by a number between 0 […]

You know the “Unnecessary Parentheses” inspection? IntelliJ IDEA has had it for quite some time. And if you were a user of the InspectionGadgets plugin since before it was bundled with IntelliJ IDEA, you know it even longer. The inspection reports any parentheses which do not alter the default evaluation order of an expression. For […]

Code completion is now a must for each and every IDE. But are you using all its power in IntelliJ IDEA? Check out the tricks below to get the answer.
Complete variables names
How often do you need to declare something like ArrayList list? Using Ctrl + Space you can complete the name of the variable. In […]

Even experienced users do not use the full functionality of their products. Sometimes they do not need it, but more often they simply don’t know about it. Of course there are lots of resources that can help you study the product (tips&tricks, demos, tutorials, etc.) But imagine that the IDE itself can tell you about […]