IntelliJ IDEA 8 - Pocket the Eight!

Today, the IDE was released, very familiar to many Java developers. I would like to talk about innovations and features of the eight.


The site has a rather large and useful list of 25 Can-Do's of version 8 of 25 features added to the idea. Those who regularly download Idea EAPs are already familiar with them. I will list some interesting ones:

- Trace where a parameter value comes from a chain of method calls
- Jump from a class to its testcase
- Explore the structure of the UML class diagram
- See which subversion changes
- Revert a set of committed changes
- Integrate your Subversion changes to another branch (cherry-picking of changes)
- Create a module from a Maven archetype
- Locate a missing dependency to your pom.xml with two clicks
- See which threads are running, idle or deadlocked in a JVM thread dump
- Autocomplete table and column names from a database while editing SQL scripts
- Debug the javascript using the Mozilla browser embedded in IntelliJ IDEA
- Expose a RESTful API for your Web application using the IntelliJ IDEA

Good integration with MAVEN is very important to me, since most open source projects have switched to it. And in this sense, IDEA 8 works very well. I will not address the issue of performance, because I choose IDE not from the point of view of fast / slow, but from the point of view of what it can and how many keys you need to press (to make mouse clicks) in order to get a result. By the way, I will say that on Intel Core Quad 2.66 with 3 gigabytes of RAM, everything works quickly (I work on Win XP / Vista).
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In general, who are interested to see, play - here is the link www.jetbrains.com/idea
PS it will be interesting to hear your opinion.