IntelliJ IDEA

New Features

New features in IntelliJ IDEA 11

IDE General

• Performance - a new editor architecture, faster indexing and faster IDE startup
• In-place refactorings - a new in-place UI for refactorings helps improve usability
• Event log view - single place to go to see all IDE notifications and take action where needed
• Groovy - Groovy 2.0 (beta) support, Introduce Closure Parameter refactoring, unwrap statement action and new Groovy intention actions
• VCS enhancements - new stack trace highlighting, Git log graph and improved GitHub integration
• Ultimate diff - JAR-files diff added and folder diff now allows merging folders
• Mac OS X - full screen support on Mac OS X Lion and numerous Mac-specific UI changes
• Updated UI - updated user interface areas include Favorites, Live templates settings, Keymap Editing UI, Plugin Manager, etc.
• Better coding experience - faster, smarter, more reliable code completion
• Linux - GTK+ UI theme improvements, better integration with docks and more.

Frameworks and Tools Support

• Gradle integration - set up your project including modules, libraries, etc. on the basis of a Gradle project file
• Grails 2.0 (Ultimate only) - ensures support for Controller actions as Methods, new JUnit Testing API, access to Gorm API from java classes, Detached Criteria, Grails web-flow, Spock framework, etc.
• Velocity 1.7 (Ultimate only) - fully supported in IntelliJ IDEA 11
• SQL (Ultimate only) - features context-aware keyword completion, SQL Server and H2 dialect support, PL extensions for all supported dialects and more
• Play framework (Ultimate only) - supports web development with Play Java Web framework. The IDE provides syntax highlighting, formatting, navigation, expressions resolve, completion for built-in tags and parameters and a Structure view
• Spring (Ultimate only) - features improved performance, new Spring 3.1 features, Spring Testing, Spring Integration support and Spring Data (JPA) support
• Android development - supports development for Google Android - even the latest Android 4 SDK (Ice Cream Sandwich) and features a new Android UI layouts preview
• AspectJ (Ultimate only) - new features include Interface Type Declarations on interfaces, configurable aspect compiler path for better performance, push-in refactoring.

Web / J2EE Development

• Coding (Ultimate only) - new CoffeeScript editor with syntax highlighting, code assistance, inspections and formatting options, new support for LESS, updated HTML5 schema and Zen Coding 0.7 support
• Testing and debugging (Ultimate only) - powerful, interactive XSLT debugger is now included, along with an improved JavaScript debugger and JSLint / JSHint integration
• Web servers (Ultimate only) - out-of-the-box support for JBoss 7, WebSphere 8
• Jersey 1.10 (Ultimate only) - supports the latest version of Jersey, reference implementation of JAX-RS 1.1.

Features

Code Editing

• Coding Assistance - Intelligent coding assistance features save your time and spare you from tedious routine, keeping your focus on the code, not its syntax
• Code Generation - Easily create classes, interfaces, methods etc. Surround code with try/catch or if/else statements and more
• Code Documentation - Helps automatically generate code documentation
• Swing GUI Designer - create a form using the JGoodies layout manager, quickly add listeners, navigate between the form and Java code, internationalise UI, and migrate hand-written UI or forms created in other UI designers to IntelliJ IDEA's GUI designer
• UML Class Diagram - IntelliJ IDEA features the UML class diagram which lets you quickly examine your application structure either on class or package level

Code Quality

• Over 60 cross-language code refactorings
• Code duplicate detection
• Dependancy Analysis to analyse the dependencies between project classes
• Code coverage support and support for JUnit and TestNG

Supported Languages

• Java - Comprehensive support for the Java programming language
• Javascript/Flex - JavaScript editor for productive JavaScript programming. All of its features including code completion, error highlighting and refactoring, quick fixes and intention actions are JavaScript aware and let you productively create efficient JavaScript code
• HTML - Powerful HTML, XHTML and CSS editors, with support for code formatting, highlighting, validation, refactoring and more
• XML - IntelliJ offers an XML viewer, XML parser and even XSL/XSLT editor
• Ruby and JRuby - IntelliJ IDEA supports Ruby, JRuby and Ruby on Rails, the open source Ruby framework, for productive Ruby on Rails application development
• Groovy - intelligent Groovy IDE, which enables productive Groovy programming
• SQL - IntelliJ IDEA supports SQL scripts with the complete range of its coding assistance features
• FreeMarker/Velocity - IntelliJ IDEA completely supports FreeMarker and Velocity through all of its productivity-boosting features
• PHP - Supports PHP debugging, PHPDoc, Refactoring and PHPUnit

Technologies and Frameworks

• JSP - Being an intelligent JSP source code editor for JSP development, IntelliJ IDEA provides an unparalleled set of productivity aimed features for editing JSP source code
• JSF - JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology leverages existing, standard UI and Web-tier concepts without limiting developers to a particular mark-up language, protocol, or client device through custom tag library for expressing a JavaServer Faces interface within a JSP page
• EJB - IntelliJ IDEA features rich support for EJB development
• AJAX - includes an AJAX-aware JavaScript editor and the best JavaScript debugger, combined with the power of advanced XML and XSL processing
• GWT - Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a framework for simple and effective creating AJAX applications
• Struts - IntelliJ IDEA includes the Struts Assistant plugin that provides the native support for Struts framework
• JBoss Seam - You can use IntelliJ IDEA for the for full-cycle development of Seam applications
• Spring - IntelliJ IDEA provides excellent support for Spring Framework (up to its latest version 3.0)
• JPA/Hibernate - IntelliJ IDEA includes the complete JPA/Hibernate support
• Web Services - take the full advantage of smart, productivity-boosting, developer-assisting features while developing the Web Services applications
• Rails - IntelliJ IDEA supports Ruby, JRuby and Ruby on Rails, the open source Ruby framework, for productive Ruby on Rails application development
• Groovy and Grails - IntelliJ IDEA is an intelligent Groovy IDE, which enables productive Groovy programming
• Java ME MIDP/CLDC - IntelliJ IDEA provides integrated support for productive development of Java ME DoJa/MIDP/CLDC application development
• Tapestry
• Google App Engine
• Android - Supports creation of Android applications

Team Integration

• Supports numerous version control systems including Perforce, ClearCase, Subversion, CVS, SourceSafe, StarTeam, TFS and GIT
• TeamCity integration
• IDE Talk for communication between team members, using instant messaging, from within the IDE
• Shareable IDE configurations
• Ant and Maven support.