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IntelliJ IDEA makes it very easy to surround a code block with if, while, for and other statements or to make a code block become part of such statments as try/catch or synchronized. Simply select the code block to surround (don't forget to use Ctrl + W to increase the current selection) and then pr…

The live demo showing the enhanced GUI Designer (one of the announced features of the IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 release) is published at Javalobby. The presentation is made by Dmitry Jemerov, JetBrains developer who actually made all the new GUI designer features. Learn how to design Swing UI with pleasure…

The full list of features for IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 release is now available. Learn more about improved Java EE development, enhanced Swing GUI designer, team work facilitation, and other new features and improvemnts at www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/newfeatures.html. The overview of the new JetBrains …

IntelliJ IDEA is aware of the Spring beans that are part of your project. If you apply Find Usages on a property setter method, for example Customer#setLastName(), and there is a Spring bean of the matching type and with the matching property being declared in a Spring XML file, IntelliJ IDEA will f…

Note   Contributed by: Esko Luontola Probably, you already know about IntelliJ IDEA TODO window that finds your "TODO" comments and helps you quickly navigate to them. But did you know that you can work not only with TODO comments, but with any custom pattern? For example, when you create a quick fi…

IntelliJ IDEA provides JUnit integration out of the box, but it does not mean that you cannot use other test frameworks. TestNG-J is a plugin that provides integration with the TestNG framework in a very similar way to the native IntelliJ IDEA integration with JUnit. TestNG-J adds its own type of ru…

IntelliJ IDEA is not "only Java" IDE. If you have a license, you don't need a separate XML editor (as well as HTML/CSS or JavaScript ones). These editors come with IntelliJ IDEA "out-of-the-box". Here is a couple of links that may help you with being more productive with XML editing: XML editor des…

Some of you will find it easier to read ReSharper help online instead of loading it in Visual Studio together with all the MSDN content ;) And by the way, on the Docs and Demos page you can also find the Default Keymap, as well as ReSharper overview which contains all the major features of the 2.0 r…

IntelliJ IDEA always strives for innovations. So, the innovative Google Web Toolkit is supported in forthcoming IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 release. Moreover, you can try it right now - the latest EAP version of IntelliJ IDEA comes bundled with GWT Studio plugin and provides general functionality. See the GWT…

Two nice tricks for navigating to a class by name (Ctrl + N). Find out how to quickly find a class that ends with particular symbols. How to match the end of a class name in IntelliJ when using Goto Class Even simpler end of class matching in IntelliJ Of course, these tricks can be used for other n…

Along with basic code completion already described on this blog, IntelliJ IDEA provides so-called "smart completion" that can be considered as a separate feature. Sometimes users call it "super" or even "secret" completion. "Super" is because this feature is far more intelligent than simple completi…

On top of anonymous bookmarks (F11 to toggle between activate/deactivate, Shift-F11 to manage), IntelliJ IDEA provides so called numbered bookmarks. What this mean is that on any line of any file managed by IntelliJ IDEA (Java, HTML, XML, JDK source files, etc.), you can define a bookmark that is id…