EAP

They can't start soon enough, as far as I'm concerned. I love the EAP.

What's the focus going to be for the IDEA 8? My vote is on general performance!

My wishlist for 8 is that they add JDK 7 language features (once they're finalized), Mercurial SCM integration, Wicket integration, more refactorings, better SQL support, and Scala language support.

will u guys ever just auto generate daily builds?

Just looked at the releasenotes of the 1st Idea 8 eap.

Glad it supports Seam. Could you add ALL features in RichFaces Visual Editor, Seam Tools and Hibernate Tools of the JBoss Tools project so that I won't envy with guys who use Eclipse and JBoss Tools for free?  

I'm looking forward to trying the js debugger. Though if it doesn't support EXT I won't be able to use it. (I'm sure everyone has their favorite js library they'd like to have work with it)

I'm very happy to see Seam support on IDEA 8. I think it will be the best java framework to build web apps so, PLEASE, take Seam into SERIOUS CONSIDERATION and add into IDEA (for sure the best java IDE) strong support for it, like Seam Tools and Hibernate Tools do for Eclipse.

Thanx.

My wishlist would be:

• Velocity syntax support (since Freemarker in on the list)
• Per project encoding (I noticed Per File encoding but hopefully this could be applied to all files included in a project.)
• a deeper Maven integration: ability to do Hotswap with a Maven project that has resources filtering and war-plugin level filtering (like on web.xml or css files, etc.). The latter happens during the package goal of the lifecycle.

• general performance has clearly become an issue for any developer not having a fresh machine (on Windows at least)

Best

Out of the box, tapestry 5 support will be appreciated.

+2000 for Velocity language support!

Diana looks nice. Any chance the AS3 support for Flex will be ramped up to allow for all the nice refactoring tools to be available? I.e. "extract interface" or other code tools like "generate getters and setters" ?

Those two features alone would make it really kick the crap out of Flex Builder. I don't need the GUI builder - that's the only thing that Flex Builder does well - I need the actual code time-savers... (I'll keep Flex Builder around for just help with GUI stuff - but using Eclipse for coding makes me want to harm myself on a daily basis)

It would be great if you could load one then more module at a time, especially in projects with hundreds of modules. This would even be nice for 7.

I would say: ditch maven support, or at least spend less time on this, since it is only a matter of time until everybody starts understanding what a piece of crap maven is.

Improving performance is, in my opinion, the most important thing. Every developer I know that uses IDEA is very happy with the rich feature-set, and the general quality. They only complain about the sluggishness...

 Keep up the good work!

H.

what a selfish comment... for some project Maven is just a good fit.
It's consider a great thing by many people to have it integrated in IDEA. You just basically said they were stupid.
not so nice...

We need more, better Maven support, not less! At the risk of sounding rude, I'd have to guess the reason you think Maven is crap is that you haven't learned how to use it properly.

I'd like to see SIMPLER refactoring and code completion features. I don't know why, but Eclipse's code completion just makes a lot more sense (one hot-key does everything), and the simple, single-step refactoring that Eclipse has is a lot easier to use than choosing a refactoring option on the menu, and then getting a dialog box with a million options like you get with IDEA. I understand IDEA's refactoring is a lot more powerful in a single step, but Eclipse makes it easy to get the same results by chaining a few refactors together, in a more intuitive way.

I think that Maven is great, and that we need more support for it, not less. Maven is the future. I must agree that eclipse key-bindings are more intuitive... ctrl-space should do most things intuitively. For example, ctrl-space for completion using the local class as a source for options, if the user presses it again, expland the search space for completion to include imported libraries, a third press will search through the entire classpath, even though the libraries aren't yet imported, etc.

The biggest problem with IDEA 7 for me is performance!!!
As I use it I have seen many different problems - hanging, taking forever with perforce, locking editor.
Most recent one is - clicking on objects in editor often takes 1-2 seconds before switching to corresponding file. Also in many cases it just does not recognize double click.

Anyway, I'd be happy if the only new feature in 8 would be resolving all performance issues.
Next I would put infrastructure features such as better Maven support, better HTML support, better javascript support.

No matter how much I like some of frameworks other people mentioned, I'd keep it much lower priority simply because there are so many of them and deciding which one to support and which one is not is just impossible and inevitably will feel unfair to someone.

Just my 2 cents.

Just curious, but am I the only one seeing this extremely long startup times in the last build of "Diana"? IntelliJ insists in indexing everything in the project (from the JDK to the last of the imported libraries) every time it starts, taking sometimes the best part of 20 minutes (and using around 50% of CPU time and almost 400MB or memory). It used to be bad with Selena, but this is too much.

Maybe  I'm doing something wrong, in which case I'd love to hear of a way to correct this.

Thanks in advance,

Javier

Would be nice if you add Struts2 support.

I'd also love better performance. It helps a bit to turn almost all plugins of in Selena but it is no comparison with 4x or 5x. Back then it was blazingly fast nowadays its just slow. Even with lots of memory (4GB, a ramdisk for the build output and the like it won't speed up). It often just hangs in the editor for several seconds (up to 20) and its responses are very lazy (like a 2 second ping lag).
I run IDEA on Windows and MacOS (Currently a Macbook Air) with the different versions and EAPs.

What I don't understand is how to take a cpu snapshot at the time it hangs. Because if its hanging I can't take a snapshot and after it hung the information is gone?

Michael Hunger

No EAP drops for ages. When is the next one due?

Is there a plan to merge the Refactor-J refactorings and bundle them with IDEA 8.0?

Does anyone know if JetBrains plan to release a 64-bit IntelliJ IDEa platform? (in the near future?)

Hi;

I am running IDEA-8375 on MAC OS X 10.4 (tiger).
Everything was fine with early version BUT with this one it's a nightmare! Everytime I click in any IDEA window's part (to edit etc...) it goes mad with a CPU usage of more than 150% - 200%!!! Before it relinquishes the CPU and then re-start again. So, in 10 min you are able to work 4-6 min properly. The rest is taken by the strange usage of CPU doing nothing!
Any help is welcome.

Robert.

I would like to see IntelliJ 8 go "back to the basics".  IDEA used to be the best because it made developer tasks simpler, and things always just worked.  Now it seems a lot of i's are not dotted nor t's crossed for the basic day-to-day developer tasks. 

I would like to see old "Commit Changes" window in IntelliJ Idea 8, like in Idea 6 or 5, I don't remember, where I can choose previous comments.

How about:

When setting up the library dependencies, give the option to import the current env classpath.

somehow syncrhonize the classpath between an ant target and the intellij library dependency classpath. 

Export a run/edit configuration along with the classpath to an ant target.

We like using ant but you can't run the debugger unless you keep up the module dependencies to what is set up in ant.  Some of our developers don't use the debugger and they don't notice a problem when they change the ant target classpath and don't tell anyone.  It compiles fine in ant but when you try to debug... you got to fix their problem and sometimes it's not that obvious what the problem is.

Better hibernate support...  Right click on a class and tell it to convert to Hibernate bean...  set it up through a dialog (add relationships... set table names...)  auto add annotations and then auto create hibernate.cfg.xml file.

Auto create Hibernate Manager class with sessionManager.

 I LOVE the debugger feature that allows you to compile and insert the new class during that debugging session.  You don't even have to restart after compile... Just keep debugging.

Also, I wish there was a feature that would allow me to search for something.  I know you can add a watch but I haven't figured out how to watch for something special to happen.  For instance, if I am iterating through a buffered reader on a socket... I am waiting for a special string to be passed in from another client... I have to set there and iterate through very painfully to look for that string instead of letting the debugger look for the string for me.  How do I do this???

 This tool has been a life saver for me as a developer... It has saved me many hours of my time that I now can dedicate to WOW... Thank you jetbrains.

how about adding memory-only mode?

right now if the project is loaded over samba thousands of requests are being made to the file system during JSP editing (via inspections), making it impossible to work over smb mount (takes about 4-10 seconds to respond to ANY change).

so, how about adding a mode where all inspections will be in-memory and file changes will be loaded from the fs on-demand only (for examply by clicking on refresh button)

I would like to see support for J2ME CDC (previously Personal Java). Eclipse and Netbeans have excellent support for it. It's time that IDEA also adds it.

If you develop industry solutions in Java, which include hand held computers (with barcode scanner) running Windows Mobile, NSICom Creme is practically the only viable solution. Wish IDEA would support it too. Without IDE support it is very cumbersome to test.

THANKS A LOT FOR SUBVERSION 1.5

Yep, it's sure that performance  should be improved

Besides there are some bugs with rendering dialog boxes in Unix environment. I've niticed that sometimes some UI controls... like text-inputs... does not display

And as for me not bad idea to have more tight integration with build scripts in next release.

2 suggestions from me as a former Eclipse user:

1) If multiple lines are selected and one presses Ctrl + Y (or Ctrl + D in Eclipse) for "delete", it should delete all selected lines -- that's very useful!

2) One should be able to move selected lines around as in Eclipse one can do so by pressing Alt +

. This shortcut is already in use in IDEA, but at least add the option please

So far, after about a month, this is all that I'm missing after switching to IDEA from Eclipse Thanks Intellij team!

What about carrying out some of the processing that's being done when opening a project in the background? There's stuff like "caching spring beans" that's keeping me from doing anything meaningful while opening a project.

Or, if this is not possible, why can't one go on working in another IDEA frame? It's annoying that all frames are blocked by a foreground task that's being executed in one of the frames. Is there a technical limitation that dictates this behaviour? Or am I just using IDEA improperly by opening lots of different frames with different projects?

Thanks
Denis

I wanted to log in to Jira to file few issues against existing and new versions but Jira would not let me log in. Does not take my EAP or confluence password but when I try to register it says that name is already taken.

Forgot password does not send anything.

So how to I access Jira?

Alex

Hi,

Performance and speed is one of the areas which could be "improved" however I believe that part of it may be resolved using smoke and mirrors.

Consider tracking which classes are loaded when accessing commonly used functions like right click, settings menu, run menu, module menu and preload these classes during the splash screen.  I do this for a few swing applications and it makes the application alot more "snappy" right from the beginning.  To get accurate details I wrote an instrumentation class to track classloader activity and then have a list of classes which get force loaded during the splash screen sequence.

Personally, I would prefer to wait an extra 5 seconds during the splash load sequence if the overall interface is "snappier" and I have no issues with performance once the JVM has warmed up.

-Tim Twelves

Provide the ability to register IntelliJ on at least two computers.

I consistently use both a laptop and a desktop concurrently when developing. IntelliJ barks at you if you register it on more than one computer so I have to either trick it to prevent the warning or disconnect one of my computers from my network.

Regarding the performance problems due to IDEA being IO-bound:

I resolved the issue (longer and longer hangs that kept increasing from version to version since 6.0) not by buying a 10.000 RPM drive but rather a small (16GB) Solid State Drive. I moved the IDEA installation, the caches, the jdk and the project files on the SSD drive (taking up just about 1 GB so even a smaller drive would do).

Since then I had no issues with hangs and blocking waits. My IDE is now CPU-bound which is not so much a problem.

See http://jexp.de/blog/archives/18-On-Boosting-My-IDEA-Jetbrains-IntelliJ-IDEA-is-fast-again.html

Michael

My wishlist is only one thing

I just want OC4J debugger. OC4J 10G application support.

Regards

Esat 

Hi, All. 

 I'm getting error when trying to decompile.

Error during dispatching of java.awt.event.InvocationEvent[INVOCATION_DEFAULT,runnable=com.tagtraum.ideajad.IdeaJadImpl$1@1eb5d7f,notifier=null,catchExceptions=false,when=1218792008100] on sun.awt.windows.WToolkit@f6a711: com/intellij/openapi/projectRoots/ProjectRootType
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/intellij/openapi/projectRoots/ProjectRootType
    at com.tagtraum.ideajad.DecompileAction.getDecompiledFile(DecompileAction.java:310)
    at com.tagtraum.ideajad.DecompileAction.actionPerformed(DecompileAction.java:72)
    at com.tagtraum.ideajad.IdeaJadImpl$1.run(IdeaJadImpl.java:66)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.c(IdeEventQueue.java:44)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.b(IdeEventQueue.java:42)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:224)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:177)
    at java.awt.Dialog$1.run(Dialog.java:1045)
    at java.awt.Dialog$3.run(Dialog.java:1097)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.awt.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:1095)
    at com.intellij.openapi.ui.impl.DialogWrapperPeerImpl$MyDialog.show(DialogWrapperPeerImpl.java:138)
    at com.intellij.openapi.ui.impl.DialogWrapperPeerImpl.show(DialogWrapperPeerImpl.java:3)
    at com.intellij.openapi.ui.DialogWrapper.show(DialogWrapper.java:820)
    at com.intellij.openapi.ui.Messages.showDialog(Messages.java:116)
    at com.intellij.openapi.ui.Messages.showYesNoDialog(Messages.java:166)
    at com.tagtraum.ideajad.IdeaJadImpl$1.run(IdeaJadImpl.java:63)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.c(IdeEventQueue.java:44)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.b(IdeEventQueue.java:42)
    at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:224)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.intellij.openapi.projectRoots.ProjectRootType
    at com.intellij.ide.plugins.cl.PluginClassLoader.loadClass(PluginClassLoader.java:53)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
    ... 32 more

Also a lot of methods marked as "too complex to analyze" . Which was not a case even with Idea 7.0.3.  And it is very slow. * is better then 7 but still notably slow.

Is it only me or is the Groovy support somewhat lacking in 8M1?

Using 7.0.3 it is clear which methods are dynamic since they are indicated by being underlined. This is useful for catching typos for statically typed classes or for making it clear which methods are indeed dynamic.

Under 8 there appears to be no distinction between static & dynamic methods.

Also, an abstract groovy base class is not recognised as being a valid superclass to an inheriting java class. This works fine under 7.

The auto popup for imports for groovy classes on 8 is better than the intention on 7.

Under both 7 & 8 it is often necessary to rebuild the entire project when a groovy class is modified since make project tends to overwrite the valid groovy compiler output with the result of the java stub compile which is of course useless for running the project.

An ant script with a valid basedir property which is fine under 7 is flagged as being non existent under 8.

For now have had to go back to using 7.

After a week of exercises with IDEA 7 and 8 I had to switch back to 6.0 Which handles my project easy (2000 files, about million lines).

Anyone know how to maximize an editor tab in Intellj IDEA using short key? in Eclipse I can use Ctrl+M

There is a bug in 8M1: when trying to ADD to Subversion a package (not file, but package with files - all: neither package, nor files are NOT under Subversion) from UI (right button click, move mouse to 'Subversion' option), IDEA just hanging down for several seconds and after it context menu disappears.

Cache system have a big problem,If idea crashed, reopen the project, cache system will rebuild.

Why does the splash screen for 8 have an eight-ball depicted? This has highly negative connotations.

when is the python module EAP going to be released? It was listed on the 8 milestone feature list, now it's removed from the final list (including the scala plugin but at least I can download the scala plugin from the repository). I bought an intellij 8 license just because of the python support you promised.

Has anyone managed to use JSF + Spring (via DelegatingVariableResolver) autocompletition in .jsp with IDEA (any version)?

I end up with "Cannot resolve variable ..." (the deployed project works though).

I have starting to use the TFS plugin that comes with the 8.1 version. Each of my projects has a seperate workspace entry, and some of my projects are having problems when I try to refresh them from the top project directory. For some reason I am getting the login popup with a 401 Unauthorized error, and when I enter my pwd, I still get the same error, so at the end I end up quitting.

Is there any possibility to return button "kill process" to debug window?

There should be links at the top of this page to

• Go to the proper place to file bugs
• Go to the proper place to request new features

I always end up having to search Google for it.

Thanks,
Gabriel