Demetra Roadmap

General IDEA features

UI

• Classic options view usability improvements
• Searchable option dialogs (MacOS X Tiger like)
• Project-wide error highlighting (to be displayed in project view)
• NavBar
• Scope view
• Simplified project/module settings UI
• Floating editor tab groups

Code

• Code coverage integration
• Custom inspections and intentions based on structural search and replace templates
• Extract method refactoring enhancements. Will work in some cases, where it currectly refuses to.
• @NotNull annotation runtime assertions
• Inplace rename refactoring for local variables

VCS

• Version control integration usability enhancements: tree-like or list-like changes instantly available in the toolwindow.
• Background update from the VCS

API

• Code completion API
• Injected languages API: XML tag contents and attributes, java string literals
• Global inspection API

Compile/Run/Test

• JUnit4 support
• Eclipse compiler support
• Incremental test run. Re-run only tests that execute changed code

Modules

• Module system should support notion of interface and implementation
• Separate dependencies for module interface, implementation and test parts

Collaboration

• Instant messaging including code pointers, stacktraces exchange with group chat support
• Contact list, registered project committers
• Single file only. P2P sources sync: diff with remote peer project state, ability to take changes from and to.
• Collaborative code review: auto-follow-me navigation
• Warn if start editing file modified by someone else in terms of VCS
• Warn if simultaneous editing causes merge after commit.

UI Designer

• Major usability improvements for editing forms
• Possibility to generate code using GridBagLayout (no more forms_rt.jar requirement)
• Support for all Swing components and property types (colors, fonts, icons, setLabelFor, etc)
• HIG-compliant borders, spacing and indents, baseline alignment
• Support for nested forms
• Possibility to create and navigate to event handlers and Swing actions from the form designer
• UI inspections (automatic checking for UI guidelines compliance)

Team Support

Build and Continuous Integration Server

• Integration/Nightly/Release build automation
• Build triggering: VCS, manual, schedule
• Build grid / cluster support
• Easy build setup from .ipr file
• Existing builds coded in Ant or Maven will be supported
• Instant notification
  • Navigate to failed tests in IDE
  • Review failure stacktrace in IDE
  • Re-run failed tests locally
• History, statistics
• Run build using local sources snapshot without committing to the VCS
• Delayed commit: build and commit if successfull
• Update to the sources of the latest successfull build
• Mark tests as ignored.

Server-side code analysis

• Code inspection
• Code duplicates
• Code coverage
• Results to be published on the Web and displayed directly in IDEA editor where applicable and necessary.

Project portal

• Share project-wide configurations (run configurations, code style, inspection profiles etc.)
• Continuous integration status
• Project commiters info (online/offline, contact info, currently working on etc.)
• Project billboard
• Server-side code analysis results.

J2EE Features

JSF Support

• JSF Configuration Authoring Support (jsf-config editing aids, form-based config editing, navigation diagram editor)
• Visual JSF/JSP/HTML Designer
• JSF-Oriented CodeInsight Features

EJB Support

• EJB 3.0 Support
• EJB 2.1 -> EJB 3.0 Migration Assistance
• Persistence Unit Diagram Modeler
• EJB-oriented CodeInsight Features
• More Complete Error Checking

J2EE Services Support

• WebLogic 9.0
• WebSphere

Other Features

• Better support for JSP fragments included into other pages
• Miscellaneous Javascript, Html, JSP, CSS improvements.