JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

We’ve just released a minor bug-fix release for the IntelliJ IDEA 9 — version 9.0.4.

Check the list of changes in this version and download it if you are using IntelliJ IDEA 9.x.

Please note that the free Upgrade offer is effective now and if you haven’t had a chance to upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 9 yet, do it now and get IntelliJ IDEA 10 free of charge.

Develop with pleasure!
-The JetBrains Team

The summer is hot not only because of the sun. Today we have even 3 breaking news to share:

1. IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 is available with fixes for many reported issues and some improvements, namely:

• New UI for merging Subversion branches
• New Password Safe tool for encrypted storing of passwords for VCS, proxy server etc.
• Initial support for HTML 5
• Support for Grails 1.3.x
• Improved Flex debugger

BTW, if you’re doing Flex, make sure to watch the IntelliJ IDEA screencasts by John Lindquist, about the debugger, refactorings and other stuff IntelliJ IDEA provides for Flex.

2. TeamCity 5.1.3 is out with some compatibility and stability fixes.

3. And the last big piece of news for today is PyCharm Beta release. JetBrains PyCharm is the new lightweight IDE for Python with the best available support for Django and Google App Engine. During the Beta we are giving away 50% discount coupons for PyCharm 1.0. So, check it out!
Needless to say, we are still going to continue to develop and release the Python plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, which will remain free for all users of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.

Develop with pleasure!
-The JetBrains Team

It’s not a secret that IntelliJ IDEA has a fully functional interactive debugger for Flex and AIR applications. Here’s a list of features added or improved in upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 release:

• XML and XMLList runtime value view
• Smart Step Into: select a function to step into if more than one available (Shift+F7) (more…)

Creating AIR installer (*.air), unsigned intermediate AIR package (*.airi) as well as generating self-signed certificate is possible in IntelliJ IDEA via Tools menu, Flex group, Package AIR Installation File action.

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IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2, is now available with a significant number of improvements in addition to a great deal of fixes.

Frameworks and technologies support

• Stacktrace folding for Groovy code

• GWT 2.0 UiBinder feature support
• Action to package Adobe AIR applications
• Improved support for CSS 3
• Grails 1.2 Ivy dependencies tracking
• Support for Zen-coding HTML/XML features
• Live templates for Flex editing (iterations, fields declaration and others)
• Parallel compilation of independent Flex modules/facets
• PHP code style (formatting) options.
• New PHP inspections: unused private field, unused local variable.
• New PHP quick fixes and intentions: automatically added stubs for non-implemented abstract methods, getters and setters.

IDE features, UI & Usability

• Support for vertical indent guides in editor (Settings | Editor | Appearance | Show vertical indent guides)
• “Show in Explorer”/”Reveal in Finder” actions in context menu
• Improved detection of project indexes rebuild necessity on IDE startup
• Code sample preview for several programming languages (currently implemented for Java, JavaScript, PHP).
• Possibility to attach source to decompiled class file directly from edit window
• Support for autoboxing when evaluating expressions in Java debugger
• UML diff tool
• New SQL and HQL consoles
• Inline display (folding) for values of Spring property placeholders
• Improved support for remote projects (via FTP/SFTP, mount/share)

The update is a strongly recommended upgrade for all users of both Ultimate and Community editions.

Check out the complete list of changes and download IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2.

Develop with pleasure
-The JetBrains Team

Make sure you try the extended JSF components support in the latest IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 EAP. Completion, error highlighting and basic refactorings have been added for RichFaces 3.x (a4j and rich) and standard (html and core) component libraries.

Write us about your favorite JSF library and we’ll add support for it asap.

When you look at a typical Groovy stack trace, you usually see something like this:

This is not terribly helpful, since there are only three lines from the actual source code. Everything else refers to Groovy’s internals. From now on, though, reading Groovy stack traces will be much easier:

If you work on large projects with dozens of Flex modules (or facets) you’ll like this new feature of IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2, which lets shorten project build time by compiling several independent Flex modules (facets) in parallel.

To enable this feature go to Settings (Ctrl+Alt+S), Compiler node and then Flex Compiler page:

Let’s have a closer look at this feature. (more…)

Writing JavaScript/ActionScript/Flex code becomes easier with IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2. New set of live templates (see Settings dialog (Ctrl+Alt+S), Live Templates, JavaScript/ActionScript group), allows to avoid tedious typing when you need to define a function, variable or constant, to loop over an Array, Vector or anything else. Luckily, some abbreviations are the same as with Java: iter, itar, ritar. Here’s the list of currently available live templates:

To use a live template, just type its abbreviation anywhere in your code and press Tab. Here are some examples: (more…)

The first IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 EAP build will add support for UiBinder, new functionality introduced in GWT 2.0. IntelliJ IDEA will understand tags and attributes in ui.xml files:

Inconsistencies between ui.xml file and associated Java class will be highlighted:

You can jump from field to the corresponding tag by using icon on the gutter:

Also IDE provides actions to quickly create new ui.xml file with associated Java class (in Edit | New | Google Web Toolkit menu) and to generate @UiHandler method (in Code | Generate menu).

Expect new version EAP to be published shortly.