JetBrains has posted the first beta of
IntelliJ IDEA 9.0
(and here I haven't even gotten around to trying IDEA 8.0 yet). New features include:
- "New background-enabled file indexing allows you to start using essential editing features almost immediately. All the advanced features become available in minutes.
The responsiveness of the user interface has been improved, with many time-consuming operations now performed in the background.
We have also introduced on-the-fly module reloading, which means that changes in .iml files (in particular, after updating from version control) no longer require reopening the entire project."
- Global unused symbols highlighting
- Easy class exclusion from completion & auto-import
- Built-in spell checker (They didn't have this already?!)
- Auto-folding (ditto?!)
- Subversion 1.6
- JEE 6
- JSR 308 type annotations such as
@Nonnull
- OSGI (Bleah.)
- Google App Engine
- GWT 1.7 and 2.0
- Android (Yay!)
- Flex (Interesting choice)
- PHP (About time!)
- UML (Boo!)