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To run a single inspection in previous versions of IntelliJ IDEA you had to create a dedicated inspection profile for that or use "Run inspection on..." from inspection's quick fix list. In IntelliJ IDEA X you can find and run inspection by its name on any scope without creating an inspection profil…
If you work a lot with WSDL, you will find new IntelliJ IDEA X refactorings, code completions and validations very handy. Be it schema or WSDL, import inside a WSDL document is not a problem anymore. Also, we are looking forward to your feedback regarding WSDL.…
Jersey is a reference implementation of JAX-RS (JSR-311). IntelliJ IDEA X will support some of the Jersey's features. MVCJ is one of them. IntelliJ IDEA automatically detects JSP templates for your resource classes that simplifies navigation to them.…
There are few small, but very useful improvements in XML editing will be available in IntelliJ IDEA 10. All of them are very handy when edit XML files like schemes, JSPs, MXMLs, etc. First of these improvements is inspection detecting unused namespace declarations. Others include namespace prefix …
Anyone working on large Maven projects knows well about how hard it is to keep in mind all the dependencies between modules and libraries; and even harder, to resolve conflicts between them. We've greatly improved Maven Dependencies Diagram to make this whole thing a lot simpler. (more…)…
If you're a lucky owner of IntelliJ IDEA 9 Ultimate Edition, you'll be surprised to find a new action in VCS History panel: view all changes made in commit in a single dialog. This feature makes it simpler to understand what a commit author made in his change. To start using this feature, invoke Sh…
If you're an IntelliJ IDEA plugin developer, you're surely going to enjoy IntelliJ IDEA PSI Viewer (Tools -> View PSI Structure), which displays internal structure of various files, as they're interpreted by IntelliJ IDEA. If you're implementing a new language support, or trying to add some cool …
In earlier post about Bean Validation support, we focused on Java related things. In other words, we only talked about Bean Validation support in Java code. IntelliJ IDEA 9 (Maia) also has powerful Bean Validation support in XML descriptors (validation.xml and XMLs describing constraint mappings). …
I'd like to tell you a bit about a bunch of cool IntelliJ IDEA shortcuts you have probably never heard of. Ctrl+W/Ctrl+Shift+W When it comes to precisely selecting a value, expression, statement or any other block of code, these shortcuts are a real killer. Just try it to see how quicker it works th…
Maia brings a new powerful action Ctrl+Tab that allows you to switch between open files in editor and tool windows. It works similar to Alt+Tab on Windows or ⌘+Tab on Mac.There are two columns: tool windows and open files (tabs). Navigation is available through the use of navigation keys and T…
Maia supports preview of icons you are using in Java code directly from the editor. For each of the icon definitions (javax.swing.Icon), Maia tries to locate a file from which it is loaded and then shows a preview in the gutter bar. You can click it to open the image for editing, of course.…
Two-way synchronization between different data models is a common routine task and often developers are stuck with manual copying of data from one model to another for many reasons: model complexity, impossibility to create a simple binding, etc. For example, we have a settings model and an UI to co…
