IDEA 8.0 Technology Roadmap

Unfortunately, I can't find ANYTHING useful for me.

hey, where's the Maven improvement? and JIRA integration support?

Forget JBoss Seam sucks!!!

I can't find anything useful for me too...

so no support for postgresql dialect?!

Good work on the Scala plugin guys, be nice to see some "official" DVCS support also.

Hi, guys.

We already have Git plugin for IDEA. Check this out http://github.com/Fudge/gitidea/tree/master

Very much looking forward for Scala plugin; SQL support is nice; other than that, nothing useful for me. However, apart from several missing features that I already reported to JIRA, Java support in IDEA7 is already perfect enough for me.

Git is wonderful, very good news there.  What about Problems view like Eclipse?  Sure it's hard, but it is possible.  I believe Sun would be 100% willing support you if JRE/JDK changes were require (or as last resort, what about IBM's compiler, that's how Eclipse does it, isn't it?).  Thank you, sincerely.

Wow!

Spring 2.5, XSLT/XPath!

But what about XSL-FO?! Why are you not going to support this technology?!

And what about DB2 dialect support?

Kind regards,

Sergey.

And it will be nice if there will diagram of XSD support in IDEA.

It would be nice to see some support for Apache Wicket. 

A web framework that should fit nicely with IDEA beeing a java centric IDE.

Can't really see why you guys chose JBoss SEAM, Struts, Air etc without looking at Wicket...

This list of newly supported features is a NEAR DEAD BULLSEYE for what I need.  SQL Support (oracle and mysql in particular), Struts 2, Freemarker, XSLT/Xpath, GWT,  and JS debugger.   The other features that I don't use (presently/yet) like Jboss Seam are good choices too.

 Would be nice to support IE Javascript debugger sometime: but I guess that's probably on overly huge undertaking given the general lack of support for that.

 steveb

great news on the scala plugin, look forward to it.

questions:

oracle pl/sql has syntax changes based on version (9i/10g etc), I think, how will you support that?
oracle also has tons of optimizer "hints" that look like a comment, eg:

SELECT /*+ ORDERED INDEX (b, jl_br_balances_n1) USE_NL (j b)
USE_NL (glcc glf) USE_MERGE (gp gsb) */
b.application_id , ...

will you support those?

requests:

postgres support, pl/pgsql
mercurial dvcs support
earlier scala plugin ;o)

This is really exciting! A very ambitious feature list - I'm sure you'll enjoy implementing it as I will enjoy using it!

I have a small feature request probe regarding packaging: would it be possible for you to maintain an APT and YUM repositories for us Linux users? Netbeans is available in Ubuntu and Debian repositories (I believe Fedora's too, haven't verified though)

This would make it super easy for people to install and evaluate IDEA (just click, install and you can evaluate it for 30 days!)

Keep up the great work,

Some good features there! But I can't see "vast performance improvements" in the list. That's implicit, right?

Good list of features, especially the Seam and the SQL support is much appreciated!

yes! Flex support. Go go go!

No J2ME Stuff;

That is a bit sad; It would be really nice if PREPROCESSING was added.

The only thing I'd like are some core refactorings:

• Do essential things first (opening project), then the rest (indexing, syntax highlighting, detecting facets, etc). This would speed things up considerably!
• Remove all the modal and blocking screens. Make Maven refresh similar to synchronize files (ctrl+alt+Y?): just a background process

Erik

OSGi Bundle development would be nice.

Support for OSGi as a deployment platform similiar to how you can deploy to web container.

Hello!

I would add some issues :-D

Engine template: Webmacro (tags, sintax...)

There is something own of Eclipse: RCP with SWT/JFace. A better support from IDEA 8?

Integration with IAS/OC4J Server

Try debug JSP pages and debug JavaScript (put breakpoints...)

Thanks!!! 

Looking forward to the plugin supporting the version control features of Microsoft Team Foundation Server! Any idea when it will be available?

I would like to see support for Drools and JRules. 

Johannes 

I know the technology is very new, but you might want to look into supporting the new SpringSource Application platform. They already have a tool set for Eclipse. I am going to request that they consider providing some support for Idea.

Ruby and Flex integration/debugging  is a huge plus for me!!  We use Flex, Java, and Ruby all the time here.  Flex build is such a drag to use.

optimized svn revision fetching! i want IDEA to do not fetch all revisions if e.g. i select "specified revision" from the svn dialogs. fetching only a configurable size makes the gui more fluent. the opening dialog should have the possibility to fetch more/all revisions.

I use the StringTemplate templating engine quite a lot (from the guy that created ANTLR...).  It's a very simple grammar, any chance of adding support for it at the same time as you add support for Freemarker and Velocity (it's even simpler than these two...).

It has two default lexers for tokens (dollar signs and angle brackets, to limit use for escape characters based on the target, please make sure you can indicate which lexer will be used on a template-by-template basis) and can be used in template files, template group files, and in string literals.

Thanks,

Chris 

Java 7 doesn't really have a formal specification (or delivery timeframe) so things like (possible) closure syntax, superpackages and the like obviously can't be supported.  If it were to be released during the shelf-life of IDEA 8, would there be a least source-level compatibility added (even without adding new features), or is it better to assume that an upgrade to IDEA 9 (or even 10!) is necessary to work with Java7-specific stuff?

Thanks,

Chris 

Great to hear that Scala probably is going to be supported later in 8.0.x. In the mean time is it possible to provide a quick fix for the sad state of affairs of the Scala plugin that's available? (Doesn't work at all for me -- and neither no one else, judging by the comments on the download page -- on my Mac with IntelliJ 7.0.3)

+1 for Scala

/ET

That is a bit sad; It would be really nice if PREPROCESSING was added.

AGREE ! NetBeans 6 has support for it, add it Please... 

UML editor will be great...

PostgreSQL support for the SQL module please!

OSGI support would be great. Specifically around Spring's application platform.

Guice support would be swell.  Although treatable as pure Java, and in that sense already supported, to provide the same understanding of Guice annotations and wiring conventions that you do for Spring would really help.

Sure wish the IDE was faster to start and less sluggish to use.  And I'm on a quad-core WinXP machine with 3 gigs.

Flex debugging?!  Sweet!  JavaScript debugging too?  Awesome!

Love Groovy plugin too, works great in mixed Java/Groovy projects.

Ruby/Python ... uh, that's cool.  Might play with those when hacking Trac or Rails.  Scala support seems like it could be a community thing for now.

Wish it was easier to set up a new project.  Or even just open a file for editing without spending 20 minutes creating a whole project structure.

 Love IntelliJ, keep up the great work! 

please, don't wast time by improving Seam features... improve more on Spring features...

We have to use standalone C++ for some things. NetBeans has pretty great support for C++, but it's not IDEA!

It would be wonderful if IDEA would support C++, if only to make it easier to debug a Java app that has JNI pieces.

I am dreaming about an IDEA that is a competitor platform for Netbeans and eclipse RCP, I can base my applications on.

It would be really good to have support for RichFaces.

Yes, it's very good and very popular.

+1 OSGi - in particular support for Spring Application Platform.  For our company this would be the main reason we would upgrade to version 8.0 - everything else of the list is not of particular interest to us right now.

+1 for OSGI - Spring

Hi there,
Would it be possible to improve the intellisense(Code Completion) feature, to activate as you start typing like in VS 2008 in place of pressing CTRL+SPACE.

thanks

+1 for Spring Application Platform (OSGi)

It would be nice if GWT came with a GUI builder.

Python support would be great! Will it include debugging and/or support for a web framework like Django?

+1 - Spring Application Platform!!!!!!!!

As soon as Scala is supported, I'll buy this product.

My vote goes towards fixing bugs and stabilizing the current product more than new functionality.

 In all honesty I think that IDEA 7.0 took a major step in the wrong direction in terms of adding a boat load of stuffs, but alot of the stuff that used to work in IDEA 6.0 doesn't work any more, or doesn't work as consistently as it used to work in IDEA 6.0. Performance in alot of cases has actually degraded due to numerous issues.

Just my 2 cents

I'm waiting for Python/Jython support.
When this feature will be available?

Will Seam support include support for JBPM? This would make my life much better! Right now I have to use the Eclipse plugin, and it's missing a few features that would be really helpful (such as EL intellisense and script block intellisense) and has a few bugs that have to be coped with. Needless to say, I'd much rather do all of my development in IntelliJ!

It looks like the Seam Pageflow Designer built for 8.0 could be heavily leveraged to extend support for a JBPM designer.

This is what I do ALL DAY, and I'm sure it would provide a huge productivity boost for me.

Thanks so much,
Jim

How about IDEA-Lite .... with all these additions, you can hardly type a line without getting GCed to hell, no matter how much memory you have...  definitely the editing experience must improve.

+1 for more/better GWT support.

+1 OSGi

Допилите питон, ради всех богов...

• I would like to see Mercurial as first class vcs in idea (i.e. officially supported) it' so strange to see git here as it's more popular amon C developers not Java
• +1 for Flex & Python support
• BTW if jetbrains has resources for dynamic languages it would be nice to see support for R (www.r-project.org) I belive there is strong buying potential here as it is the first class language for math statistic nowadays (read banks, not universities).

OSGI and SPRING please!!!!

Thanks for all your great work.

 Unfortunately, in our large project (600+ classes) IDEA became slower in 6.x and slower yet again in 7.0.3 release, despite following GC tuning recommendations (I use -Xms256m -Xmx750m with the suggestions listed in this thread). I have had pauses over one minute when switching back to IDEA from another process (it wasn't even minimized, physical memory is not exceeded, and i have under 75 unmanaged files)

 If this generally holds true, if it gets any slower, I will no longer be able to tell everybody that IDEA is so much better then Eclipse (though my stomach churns at the thought)... if you cannot find ways to get the long pauses under control, it will eventually get too painful.

Thanks.

I see that you are going to support OSGI. Would that mean that at some point it would be possible to use Eclipse plug-ins from IntelliJ? Or is that a huge undertaking? Perhaps it would make it easier to port Eclipse plug-ins even if they could never be used out-of-the-update, so to speak. I find your design much cleaner than Eclipse's and I like the support for Flex/ActionScript/AIR that is coming in 8.0. I find FlexBuilder rather underwhelming for the price and usually don't end up using a GUI builder for more than an hour or two at the beginning of a project, until I run up against its limitations, so lack of a Flex GUI builder is not a big deal to me. I like an environment that gives me refactoring and a quick way to jump from a reference to the implementation of a class or method, otherwise I'd just use Emacs, which has all of the editing power I need. I've looked at 7.0.3 and while its an improvement over Emacs for the project view as a whole, I'll think I'll hold off until 8.0 to purchase IntelliJ, to see how complete the support for Flex is.

My wish list that I am drooling for:

Ruby

• Better refactorings (especially surround type refactoring, extract to method, move to class)
• Improved support for rspec
• graphical debugger

Groovy

• Better refactorings

Git - many talked about it, so it's great you're adding it. Importantly using git together with an SVN back end is very popular with Ruby environments

Task focused UI like Mylyn. That's pretty much the only advantage of Eclipse (don't make me go there, please!) - especially if it's easy to have my own custom integration. The bug tracking, task management, project management, ELM, whatever you wanna call it world - is getting *very* fragmented and the chances of a canned integration to fit any particular environment is getting lower. But the advantage of something like Mylyn in *huge*

Good work guys. Continue improving the best IDE! 

+_GWT 1.5

What about a UE designer for GWT?

Google Gadget support?

IntelliJ surprises me all the time. I came from JBuilder a while ago after they stated to loose directions and i never looked back.

Really good IDE with tons of thoughtful features. 

How about simply making IntelliJ faster and use memory as efficiently as possible? Also, why not open the platform and dual license? Your main competitor is eclipse which has basically eaten all your market share... I love the tool and would continue to purchase even if you open sourced the product. You could even tier the pricing and split out certain features that are "free, professional and enterprise"... But you guys really need to work on performance and stop trying to load the kitchen sink into your product...

Best,

Brian

What is the status for the TFS plugin for IntelliJ? Do you have a planned release date?

Our main product is C++ / C# but we have a Java client as well.

The work situation for the Java developers got worse when we switched from SourceSafe

to TFS last December (It got better for the rest of us ) and I would like to help them

by getting as much support for TFS as possible.

Can we sign up as beta testers?

/Lars

I want a visual development tool for jsp pages where I can drag some web components into the page,just like dreamweaver.Certainly it does not need to be very powerful like dw,but needs to have some basic functions.unfortunately so far it doesn't have the function.

What about SQL support for Derby?

+1 on OSGI bundle development support. Eclipse has "Plugin Project" support, which you can use to develop OSGI bundles based on Eclipse Equinox. There should be at least something in Intellij IDEA

I would like to join my voice with those desperate for Postgresql support. It should not be that difficult to add if you are already doing Oralce. So I'm hopeful that you guys will manage to get it in. Not so hopeful, but I need to ask:

• support for iBatis would be nice,
• better support for Linux 64.
• support for Dojo Toolkit (dojoML), but I'm not holding my breath on this one.
• support for real Rename file in svn (not delete and create file).
• at least basic profiling.
• support for the fact that other languages other than JavaScript can go between <script> tags. For example a script tag declare as following <script type="text/xml">  should not expect JS. Not necessary to support XML here (I know it takes resources), but just not mark it as an error.
• SVG markup?

Python, Flex, AIR, JavaScript Debugger, FreeMarker, Velocity: I love you guys!
Updates (Spring 2.5, Subversion 1.5...): thank you!
Seam: big thanks (but it sux, anyway)

so when do you think IDEA 8 will be ready ?

How about support for JavaFX since now the preview SDK is released ?

I really appreciate the effort to bring the Ruby support to a higher level. Thanks a lot. I've been using IDEA for years (since 2.x) for my Java work, and now just want as close to the same experience as is possible with Ruby.

Regarding Velocity support..

Would it mean embedded velocity in html as template files? I would prefer to know that  all the features available to html (layout, autocompletion, javascript debugging) are still available when velocity is embedded in html files.

 Thank you

Hi guys, great work!!!!

  I would like to see the current SWT UIDesigner to be improved as well ! it is great for some Swing Applications, please add support for MENU components, other improvements would be nice to get as well !

-s

Since XQuery will be part of Java 7, any chance we can get XQuery support?

I feel like we are ignoring the large pink elephant in the room here. The other IDE's are supporting SOA/BPEL development/design, clearly an important technology in use all over the place, and we are talking about ruby, struts and seam? If intellij wants to remain a serious IDE for enterprise development (which it has so far), we have to catch up here or many will be forced into using other tools. Is there consideration for supporting this anytime soon?

Intellij IDEA is a wonderful IDE for Java and now with the new features of IDEA 8 it will rock more as

- Spring 2.5 (Dont forget OSGI too please)

- Python/Jython( favorite scripting language I could now develop with Django on IDEA, cool)

- Flex/Web2.0/Javascript/HTML/CSS/etc

I would like to see more support on the Web frameworks as Tapestry 5, Spring MVC, ZK framework.

First question, Really we need the Scala support in IDEA? I think it is a complicate language, I think it is more for the academic folks, as Lisp or Haskell so on.

Java still very pragmatic and with scripting languages as Python and Ruby I guess is enough.

Second question, It will be support for JavaFX now that the preview is out? Im more of Flex fan but just curios if it will be for JavaFX something or in the future, it looks

there is a JavaFX plugin around for IDEA but is buggy and old.

Many thanks to the Intellij IDEA team for this great product.

I would like to see more support on the Web frameworks as Tapestry5

Is there any plans for JavaFX Support?

I am a java editing freak also, and I wish that there would be more and more flexible ways to analyze and view code as code. The DSM is fantastic and worth the upgrade to 7 all by itself, but there's so much more that could be done with that information.

I am sure that the expansion into Flex and all the rest is greatly appreciated by developers using those technologies. I am not one of them, but mI know IntelliJ has to provide value to the market first and foremost. 

Overall, I just wish they would work on the OpenAPI so developers could use IntelliJ to realize their own vision  of what an editor should do. That means example plugins,  book-quality documentation, and above and beyond the call of duty Javadoc. Facilitating the creation of truly novel and useful plugins has to be the greatest bang for the buck available to JetBrains.

JetBrains has to realize that they are just one source of new ideas for  editors and code editing, and that someone or some group of people is going to come up with something fantastic that neither JetBrains or anyone thought of. The way to make your product the platform for that kind of innovation is to document, rationalize, create deep and useful examples of plugins.

OSGi support would be great, but the most needed improvment would be better performance : faster start, better garbage collection (sometimes more that one full minute freezing), even faster quit would be appreciated. And 1.5 gigabyte of cache is too much.

+1 - Spring Application Platform!!!!!!!!

+1 Tapestry5

I would like to see Mercurial as first class vcs in idea too