Is the Build and Continuous Integration Server just an integration of CruiseControl, something completely new or something in between?

I think that that will be a good idea to include direct support for XP-stype pair programming in Collaboration features, to give a possibility for two developers simultaneously edit the source and discuss changes in realtime using some sort of built-in chat.

If support for web frameworks like JSF is being added why not also add support for hibernate, the most used persistence framework. At least an integration with hibernate tools would be great. This way IDEA would cover the development of one more layer of a "usual" J2EE project.

It would very helpful to have file template that are project specific.

IMHO Tapestry (especially 4) is head and shoulders above the others in its class, but it lacks a good IDE support. Could you fill this gap?

One feature suggestion for IDEA 6.0:
Look at JBuilder's (and Delphi) SyncEdit feature. It is simpler but more powerful and productive then IDEA's Live Templates.
Just select a code fragment, press a key combination to enter SyncEdit mode, and viola, you have a Live Template from the selection. Whenever user changes a word when in SyncEdit mode, all occurancies of that word in the selection scope change automatically. Simple as that, but extremely usefull.

Also, option to enable automatic highlighting (instead of invoking it with a key stroke) of variable/method/class usage would be useful. Maybe the default should be off, to avoid negative feedback as it happened to Eclipse.

JavaScript code-completion is rather incomplete. Us web-UI developers would like to see full DOM suggestions on JS objects, including vendor extensions. The current CSS and XHTML editing is fantastic!

UML support with refactoring and live sync would be the feature that will make the IDEA a complete tool for the model, code and test.

I would love to see a domain-specific-language editor (tab completion, indentation, hints, etc.) for SQL... Even better if it works for SQL embedded in strings in source code or in resource files.

Wow... that list sounds quite ambitious (and interesting) - here's hoping you can pull it off.

That said, as others have mentioned, it would be good to see support for Hibernate (maybe Spring as well? ), but even more importantly, I think that a comprehensive effort to complete, document and provide examples for the plugin API would be a huge win. I know that's not nearly as glamorous as the collaboration stuff, but I don't think it's any less important, especially in terms of increasing the flexibilty of the IDE and making it easy for people to take advantage of that flexibility.

I would like to see AspectJ support.

We use spring as the framework, buid web pages using JSF, use Hibernate(plus Xdoclet) to talk to databases. Recently I've tried other IDEs that support those three, which makes a great help. As a server-side developer, JSF helps develope the clide-side and Hibernate solves the nightmare of databases communication. With JSF, Hibernate, Xdoclet, I can really be a developer who "code with pleasure". IDEA is great because of its high performance and low memory usage. It is pure, fast, and looking really good! Upon the great base that IDEA owns, it should be more powerful once other convenient and standard technologies are embedded in it.

I should say that I have no use for the features described in Team Support... sorry.

On the other hand I would like massive improvement in Javascript support.

Integration with the DB to write SQL (auto completion like TOAD) would be relly cool (no need to execute the SQL, really, just help to remeber the name of the table fields).

Last thing would be increased efficency in the editor (aka more speed). For example: If I write a comment in a file why do inspections checks the whole file again? If I just push the Enter key why do inspections checks the whole file again?

These seems like little thinks but when the class is large (5000 lines and cannot be broken down) or when you have many inspection enabled, IDEA is really slow.

need to Support J2EE1.4+ WebServices

how about a profiler?

1. Usable OpenAPI
2. Hibernate
3. SQL code completion

java web start support.. that is, generate .jnlp files, it's hell to add/remove tons of different resources

I'd love to see support for JMock tests in the Rename Method refactoring.

1. searchable keymaps (actions or keystrokes)

2. refactoring to extract tag file from JSP, which can find and replace duplicate code

3. Sync between Ant build.xml and .ipr. (not sure how. start with build.xml template?)

4. I like CruiseControl, but some of your build server features sound killer.

I would love to see JBoss support

Please use the SWT and, if it is possible, implement it in the gui designer.
Actually the interface is really slow!

I would love to see support for AOP in Demetra. I don't have much use for collaboration tools but have pressing needs to use AOP.

Despite Eclipse having AOP support I still think IDEA is much much better all round, except for AOP!

So please give us AOP in Demetra!

I would like to see an improvement to the output windows.

Try setting the scrollbar to the bottom for an output window such as the console output while a program is running and producing output. (i.e. so that the very bottom of the viewport is showing). Now wait for the next line of output to come. The scrollbar moves up slightly. As more text arrives, the newest lines go out of view instead of the oldest. This is not ideal.

I faced this exact problem on a project recetntly and IMHO it was not the easiest thing to solve, especially when new lines are being inserted in bulk and rapidly. I did however solve the problem completely (this for an applet now in use in the Formula One control rooms) If the talented people at JetBrains wanted to see my solution I would be honored (after getting permission from F1)

What I would love to se in IDEA is a profiler that is as well integrated as the debugger is today. It wouldn't need to be as feature rich as the standalone commercial ones, but a performance hierarchy displaying cpu info and some functionality to identify memory and performance hogs would be really useful.

I don't know it maybe possible already, but I'd love to be able to override project settings on opening someone other's project

• thing that bugs me the most: placement of tabs (project, structure, ant build, etc.) When I create new projects it's fine, but when I open a project created by someone else it resets to that someone's schema...
• JDK settings (I work on Mac, the names of JDK IDEA comes up on mac a different then those on Windows, for example the update number 1.4.2_X and 1.4.2_Y) So when I open someone's else project every time I have to go and change it...

I saw Websphere and Weblogic (commercial) support. It should be nice to have support for JBoss AS (open source).

In the J2EE editor, it should be very usefull to add the possibility to add/edit/remove ejbFinders and ejbSelects visually. Currently (Idea 5) one can manage ejb/relationships... from editor of the ejb Module, but if I wanna add to ejbselect or ejbfinder, I need to edit the ejb-jar.xml manually.

A feature that would make this a "must buy" is if the visual JSP designer supports custom JSP tags, that you could define the visual representation of.

please support custom compilers:
we need to be able to plug-in support for APT or AOP compilers.
currently we cannot replace built-in compiler (javac or jikes)

being able to hook before and after compilation process is not always enough

note this does not necesarilly mean we want you to implement APT or AspectJ support... providing sound API to do this by ourselves would be enough for start...

Good ClearCase support, supported by the vendor, is really needed. Relying on custom plugin, not really supported, is not sufficient for large scale shops

Spring and Hibernate support would be extremely welcomed.

Top missing features: Hibernate, Web Services, Struts-complete like another vendor.., JSF --> Spring would be nice too!  If all of these features were included and up to date then I'd have no problem pay you my $300 every 2 years!  As well, in 4.5 the effort to make WebLogic run is too much - it should run as an embedded server like Tomcat in Eclipse so  the Code replacement and other language platform features are all useable.

We really need a good plugin tutorial.

• DocJava

we like idea,because it is smart.
but we need a faster debugger,i feel slow when debug and i feel idea5/4.5 is slower than 3.
we hope less memory needed,idea used 300M or more when i wrok. idea5/4.5 used more memory than 3.
but the most important thing is faster,or i will with no pleasure and feel impatient.

performance is very important.some ides have good feature,but we can't bear their low  performance.
   idea's performance is good,but thing looks go to the bad

Any chance for Portlet API in the nearest future?  With support for JBoss Portal would be awesome!!
Or, just JBoss Portal deployment plugin if possible (JBoss 4 app server is already supported via a great plugin)

Suggestions:

• To be able to set environment variables when running an app, unit test or ant build.

• To be able to have all windows split up/docked together arbitrarily. Similar to Xcode on OS X. I know you can float windows, but they always come to front when clicking in main window. OSX users can make use of exposé; Windows/Linux users can buy Macs.
• Two-stage structural search and replace, eg, search for something stucturally, then search and replace structurally within that initially found block. (useful eg, in replacing guarded blocks of code for log4j and replacing them with guarded jakarta commons logging code).
• Anything to stop Eclipse users whining

Coming over from Netbeans 4.1...

  * I would like to see the build process in intellij to incorporate something like -pre-compile, -post-compile, operations.  I have as to now had to export the project to a build file and then modify it, to make it work (doing btye code injection - JPOX).

However, the overall Intellij experience is better than netbeans.

I'd most like to see some spring/hibernate support and Maven 2 support similar to the current support for ant.

Gosh, I can't imagine anything else that's needed in IDEA.  Hit the beach instead!  Build an open source voting system, or solve world hunger.

But if you insist on features... a plugin module that extends compete syntax checking to jakarta velocity macros. (.vm). And better control over HTML standards compliance, perhaps by bundling a module such as "HTML tidy" for Firefox.  Right now IDEA checks fragments of HTML pretty well... but it can miss the bigger picture of how the HTML performs as a complete unit.

Note: Nothing on the team's list above is of any interest to me.

I would vote for adding SWT support in the GUI Designer. 

Judging from the comments, I must be the only one here that wants 5.0 stability first.  Maybe the Linux and Mac support is lacking but both platforms seem pretty shaky.

when will AspectJ be integrated in?
eroberts@ieee.org

WebSphere support should be for both 5.1 and 6.0 - this is most important feature for my organization.  WebSphere support should focus on debugging, especially jsp debugging needs to work great.  Other parts of the websphere integration are useful but not critical.

+1 for a smart SQL editor. That would be a fantastic feature since so many sql editors, even really expensive ones, suck.

Faster edit and continue. Having to wait many seconds for few classes to be reloaded is the only thing that annoys me in 5.0.
Dont overgrow your product. You are close to perfect today.

For my team and likely other teams in my company your whole 'Team Support' section with each outlined subsection would be extremely useful. The only thing I'd warn about is for Continous Build System to have generic api that would allow us to write a plugin to use our home grown CBS. Of course good integration with Cruise Control is a must. We actually use both.

There are three things I want from new version of IDEA: performance, performance, performance.  I accept that a product as full featured as IDEA is going to require a lot of memory, but it seems lately that with my big project it just takes a lot longer to do simple tasks and many times the CPU maxes out and I can't continue working until manually killing IDEA and restarting.  It almost has me wanting to go back to using something simple like a text editor and Ant, but it would kill me to lose all of the features I've come to love in IDEA.

The feature that I miss the most is good searching capabilities on log files. This includes:

Backward incremental search (like Alt-F3, but backwards), as the recent events are at the end of the file.

Search in the current file and place results in a buffer (like the output of Find in Path).

Search in several files whose names are given either as a list, or with wildcards/regular expression (all the rest like Find in Path)

I would like GUI Designer to enable custom creation of a components, derived from Component Palette's components. For example, I'd like GUI Designer to generate the code  
 JTextField textField = createTextField ();
 

I would like GUI Designer to enable custom creation of a components, derived from Component Palette's components. For example, I'd like GUI Designer to generate the code  
 JTextField textField = createTextField ();
 

Suggestion: build in support for Subversion

I would like the ability do define a JDK that is relative to project root.
This is because we work with version control and JDK is saved in version control too.
When we switch project (in different ClearCase view) i want it to take the JDK from this view, without the need to define a JDK for each view

Eclipse Mylar (http://eclipse.org/mylar) seems to represent a very innovative concept. Please consider the same functionality for intelliJ 6.0

Guys, Tapestry 4 IDE support would be a greate job

One area where IDEA's current build system doesn't work for me is where I have to post-process bytecode.  My particular example is first of all running JDK 5.0 source code through RetroWeaver and then through my JDO enhancement tool.  It may be that documenting the plugin API better is all that is needed (Retroweaver appears to be able to post-process stuff, but I don't know how to hook MVCsoft JDO tools in there).  In any case, it's currently one of my biggest obstacles to using IDEA in my build workflow.

Geronimo support would be great.

Better javascript support by using (even incomplete) type inferencing would be great!

AspectJ, AspectJ, AspectJ !!!!

I agree.  Idea is a dog.
Performance improvements would be welcome.
Stability improvements would be welcome.

Nothing on the above list of features is of any interest to me.
Instant messaging?  What a lark!  You guys have nothing better to do than reinvent that wheel?  What a waste.

The two most important to me would be a JSF visual dev UI, and Merant/Serena PVCS integration.....

BUT...

Better yet would be to provide an Idea Plugin API -to- Eclips Plugin adapter.  Can you imagine being able to use
all of the Eclipse plugins in Idea as if they were native!?  If it were, I wouldn't need either of the features above,
because there are Eclipse plugins already available for each of these features!!

"Fire at will"
-- The Klingon twin sister, Lursa, from "Star Trek VII: Generations"

My shop are major fans of IDEA, versus our previous hodgepodge of Netbeans/JBoss/various text editors. Our only difficulty is using Maven as an external tool (we're not very fond of the plugin). However, it appears that 6.0 will integrate Maven (woohoo!).

Great going! Holding breath for 6.0 now.

Great feature list, but for me and my company full web services (JAX-WS 2.0, JAXB 2.0, etc.) support and a great profiler is really needed.

It would be great to have web servics 2 support, a good profiler and better team work support (like consol outs porting and code posting with packing).

HIBERNATE & SPRING support please!!

 it would be great to an advanced team work support as one of the Idea's new features. Description:
- file sharing and sending
- voice- and message-based chat over internet

I really enjoy the Intellij IDEA. It can beat any IDE with its functionality. New features & lots of plugins... sounds great. But...

 Extremely SLOW local history, SLOW caches update (while IDEA project opening), abnormal memory usage etc. are the real pain for developers even who own fast hardware with great memory volume. Think of Idea 2.6 or 3.0 - really fast & pretty IDE. Large projects (few thousand classes & JSPs) are pretty "incompatible" with IDEA
Performance improvements - very important thing for now... 

Will IDEA be the ever fastest IDE with incredible set of features? ^)

Mark

A few things that I would have liked to see make it:

1. Have IDEA automatically register all libraries in a particular folder as belonging to your project.  Use Case: When someone adds a library in VCS and you get the latest code, if you dont remember to add the library then u get a whole lot of errors.  This might seem trivial but when you're switching between 3 different versions at different labels and different libraries are being changed all the time it gets very annoying.

2. Have IDEA use the maven project.xml to automatically fetch and register libraries. We've kinda switched to having maven manage the libraries for us.  We're still using ANT as our build process on our build machine but managing different libraries across lots of projects seems more managable with maven.

3. Allow modules to be unloaded but still visible in the project.  I like this in eclipse.

4. Propper starteam support.

I need fast, small and reliable version of IDEA with regactoring. The other features (J2EE support, AspectJ etc.) should be moved to the plug-ins.

Would be great to be able to use the IDEA as an application framework (especially the docking framework) for developing our own applications, similarly to the Netbeans Rich Client Platform or the Eclipse Platform.

Has JetBrains thought of showing (or enabling) only the refactoring options appropriate for the context of what is selected (or where the carat is, etc.)? This has always annoyed me with both IDEA and Eclipse... at all times I have the full gamut of refactorings when only a handful make sense based on what I right-clicked. There are so many refactoring choices, and I haven't memorized all the refactoring titles to recall exactly what they do. Making the list smaller based on context would be a great help.

I like IDEA's ability to show me dependencies of my source code. Sometimes though it would be nice to know the dependencies of a jar file I have. Could IDEA facilitate this without me having to decompile it and create a project?

- Maven 2 integration. Maven 1 was just a proof of concept (but is used a lot for now).
- UML class diagrams like in NetBeans 5.5 (absolutly nothing that pollutes the code, not like Poseidon id's or ...)

Clean and useful Ajax support is a must, I would like to be able to have several components that we can mix and match out of the box, and have an easy way to make our own.

I don't see any JSF support, I would think there would be a wysiwyg form designer along with it, Java Studio Creator 2 has some cool stuff that should be integrated into IDEA in this respect.

I hope AOP gets on the list soon. Just look how very elegant Eclipse has handled AOP. Also with the merge of AspectJ and AspectWerkz, there is only 1 framework to support, so that should not be a problem. I would hate to stop using IntelliJ because I want to use aspects.

i think the console window gets very slow (plus the whole idea stucks from time to time) when you have a lot of output in the console - think about the gc...
it would be perfect if there was an option "only keep last xxx kb in the console" or line based (but this is not so good because you never know how long your lines are...).

What makes IDEA great? What causes people to turn their noses up at the free Eclipse? The reason is because IDEA is still the best Java editor out there and anyone who still uses a keyboard to create software will have more fun, make less mistakes and (most importantly) code orders of magnitude faster than the fastest eMacs, Vi or textpad user out there. In the days of IDEA 2.5, most of us turned our noses up at JBuilder, Visual Age, JDeveloper and other such offerings; despite the fact that they all offered more features than IDEA, you could still get more done in less time with IDEA owing to the fact that most of your time is spent editing code - something IDEA excelled at.

IDEA should stick to this role as the IDE that changes the way you work. Stuff like AspectJ support, Maven integration and Tapestry are all features that some are seemingly desperate for, but for each feature that 10% of the users are clamouring for on this page at least 50% would rather not have forced on them. Becoming a JBuilder or Visual Age is a risk to be avoided. Anything that doesn't benefit the majority of the userbase or "change the way we code" should be left as an optional plugin.

Don't know how this will go down but ...

I would really like to have a  pluggable language  implementation for  C/C++.
It's a real pain in the ass using another (inferior) IDE to code native parts of my Java apps (I admit this is relatively infrequent).

And I still write C++ code.  I know IDEA was always meant to be a Java IDE, but is C++ language support feasible given the abstract language model used for JavaScript et al.  It realy hurts having to use Eclipse C++ plugins when you are used to the code-cutting completeness of IDEA.

I think it would be really great if IntelliJ could have Matisse support. I find Matisse very nice. More an more people will be writing code to it, so it would be very good to be able to continue using IntelliJ on that code.

Without AOP-support, IDEA is growing obsolete for my needs. Once you've had your first hit of AspectJ, there's no going back. Limited support for Spring-style AOP is well and good, but just not enough.

It would be great if IntelliJ would allow the user to customize the equals and hashcode templates.  There are certain scenarios that the generated equals method doesn't account for:
Comparing a Date and a Timestamp cause problems.  A date isn't a timestamp, but by the date equals method that can be equal (though the opposite is not true).
Proxy classes cause problems when comparing the classes.  Comparing a hibernate proxy class and a normal class will also return false.

If you implement Maven 2 support, you might want to take a look at the free m2 book, downloable from mergere.com
Read that and you'll understand why maven 2 is worth the effort.

i like IDEA, it's easy, but the examples i can find is so little.

 so plz and more and more and more and more examples in IDEA6.

Are there any plans for TestNG-support?

Visual SourceSafe 2005 integration please

I've been using IDEA for years. The version 5.1 seems to be much much slower than 3.x or 4.x. I am using a workstation with PentiumD and 1G RAM, still it takes almost 5 minutes to open up a project. If the garbage collection starts, I know that it is time for a coffee break. Could I disable at least some of the features in IDEA to make is faster??

I'd like you to add jsf/myfaces feature greatly.Myfaces(tomahawk) is the powerful ui component for the presentation.And i like use it into  jsf.So i hope you provide support early.
You may refer to ExadelStudio plugins.

Can we just get the display issue in the File View fixed? When multiple rows are selected, only the last selection is visible, the rest gets effectively blanked out. Very annoying.

What about a real multi project support ? I mean I don't want to have to 2 idea opened in order to see 2 differents .ipr. You never know which one is active. even if I load all in one one ipr using the module facility (even if in some case it does not makes sens because I want to open 2 different project that have no direct relations) it take a lot of memory (no way to activate/desactivate temporarly on project in order to use less memory).

A practical example is that I always have often both the head and patch branch opened...

In a past lived I used to work with the visual studio ide and that was something well handled : One the left panel you could load/unload (activate/desactivate) any project and so the memory pbl was handelabled.

 Does anyone else has the same pbl or has find solution... elsewhere this is something JetBrains should really work on (I think) !