IDEA X First EAP Release Notes

UI/UX Improvements
- New scrollbars
- Improvements for Mac OS X (native-like status bar, IDE restart, etc.)
- ~~Soft wrap in the editor~~ (work in progress, use at your own risk)

Java
- Faster method usage search
- New formatting options (alignment in columns, relative indents)

Spring
- Spring Web Services support
- Spring testing support
- Spring integration with JSRs and languages: JSR-330(CDI), Groovy, etc.
- extended placeholders support
- new live templates (patterns and frameworks)
- intelligent resources support (smart completion and warnings for resource types)

JSF
- Extended JSF libraries support (RichFaces, PrimeFaces, Standard(html and core), OpenFaces)

Maven
- Maven Refactorings
- Maven Generate actions for pom.xml editor
- Maven pom.xml editor new features
  - Easier Navigation
  - Smarter Paths
  - More intelligent plugins configuration
- Maven Dependencies Diagram
- Discover & download libraries from maven repositories even in plain java projects

JavaScript / ActionScript Support:
- Smarter introduce: allow to extract fragment of E4X literal / arbitrary well-formed binary expression (e.g. b + c in a + b + c), suggest variants when no selection
- Introduce parameter refactoring for function.
- Create parameter fix on unresolved variable.
- ActionScript: create field / assign to field fix available on unused parameter.
- ActionScript: inline one function call and leave the method option.
- ActionScript: rename access property functions renames field and vice versa.

Flex Support:
- Flex and FlexUnit run configuration: select browser or Flash Player to launch your application with (IDEA-49795)
- Flex and FlexUnit run configuration: option to place your SWF file to the local-trusted sandbox (IDEA-51966)
- Settings | Compiler | Flex Compiler: option whether to include debugging info into compiled SWF/SWC (IDEA-52692)
- Compile CSS to SWF (IDEA-54169)
- Extract interface, Extract superclass actions
- Reworked 'New ActionScript Class' / 'New Flex Component' actions that support file templates
- 'Go to symbol' feature now works in MXML components

Google Web Toolkit
- Support for CSS in ui.xml files
- Improved support for JSNI methods
- Action to generate and view GWT Compile Report
- Support for ClientBundle and CssResource

Version Controls Support
- Git support improvements, including 'Git Log' view.
- Mercurial support

Application Servers
- Option in the module wizard to quickly create a run configuration for an application server

Groovy
- Change Method Signature refactoring working for both Groovy&Java code
- Compiler: navigation from the generated stubs to the Groovy classes
- HotSwap for Groovy classes
- Easy Grape dependencies downloading
- Groovy++ list->object, map->object, closure->object conversions, traits support
- In-place rename for local variables
- Gant: Ant task names completion (requires Ant Support plugin enabled)

Grails
- GSP: completion for attributes "action", "controller", "template", "contextPath", "plugin"
- GSP: resolving variables defined in tags like g:each, g:set, etc.
- GSP: support javascript in tags like "onSuccess", "onFailture", etc.
- Preliminary debugging of GSP pages.
- Completion for value of action/controller parameters in built-in methods redirect(), render(), forward(), chain().
- Source and javadoc jars detection for Ivy dependencies if they exist in the local Ivy cache.
- Renaming related artifacts together (e.g. renaming matching .gsp together with a controller action, renaming matching test classes together with production ones, etc.)

Language Injection
- Injected Fragment Editor now supports everything an ordinary editor does (Reformat, Intentions, etc.)

Database & Persistence Frameworks Support
- Named, positional and indexed parameters of SQL queries are covered just like in JPA QL case
- Hibernate Criteria API supported
- JPA Console
- JDBC Console UI revised
- Initial support for HSQLDB Dialect

Android Support
- Navigation to original resource from its usage in Java code

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