JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 8.0.
New features in 8.0 include:
- SQL-92, MySQL, SQLite with coding assistance and Console to run SQL scripts from the IDE
- Template languages: FreeMarker, Velocity
- XPath/XSLT, including XPath expression evaluation
- Groovy/Grails with advanced editing, new refactorings and Gant
- JBoss Seam
- Struts 2
- Spring 2.5
- Spring Webflow
- Spring MVC
- Spring Dynamic Modules
- GWT 1.5
- 7 New Java Refactorings
- Dataflow to This — see where an arbitrary parameter value comes from
- Create new test for class intention and navigation between classes/tests
- UML class diagrams with navigation to the source code and refactorings
- Thread dump analyzer
- Automatic namespace import for HTML/XML/JSP
- JavaScript debugger
- Flex debugger
- Advanced Flex code editor for MXML and ActionScript files, with Flash 10 generics
- Maven: create new module from archetype, Repository Browser, pom.xml validation and editing assistance
- Subversion 1.5 merge tracking support
IDEA is $599 payware (up from $499). Upgrades are $299. At my day job, my team has been switching back and forth between IntelliJ 7 and Eclipse 3.4 lately. Right now I'm finding them about equally annoying. I'll have to give IntelliJ 8 a whirl and see if it's improved the usability at all.