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If you've happened to use IntelliJ IDEA's Analyze Stacktrace feature to investigate someone else's stack traces, you'll like the way it is extended in the latest IntelliJ IDEA EAP.You can now paste an entire thread dump to the Analyze | Analyze Stacktrace... dialog. IntelliJ IDEA will present all th…
While developing any application, you most probably debug it, and I bet my bottom dollar, making this process a little bit easier and faster would not be out of place. In this post, I'd like to tell you about one of the IntelliJ IDEA features — type renderers. They provide you the ability to customi…
Each new IntelliJ IDEA version brings lots of different enhancements. Maven integration is not exception to the rule, and I'd like to draw your attention to some Maven integration improvements in IntelliJ IDEA version 7.0.3, that I personally consider worth mentioning. Automatic synchronization w…
Maven integration in a Java IDE might not be a surprise for you, but let me show you just one thing, that makes IntelliJ IDEA Maven support prominent and noteworthy. If you have any Maven project, you do not need to perform routine steps while importing it to IntelliJ IDEA and you do not need to be…
It is sometimes the case, you can create plugins you want to preserve for internal use only. With IntelliJ IDEA you can maintain your own enterprise repository to share your plugins with team members solely. To create a repository, we need a Web server, where our plugins will reside, and a desc…
If you had worked with IntelliJ IDEA for a while, you're most likely aware of @Nullable, @NotNull annotations which allow you to formally specify method contracts and validate whether these contracts are met, and @NonNls annotation which is helpful when you want to exclude strings from the internati…
DSM stands for Dependency Structure Matrix - a method for exploring dependencies between program parts (modules, classes, etc.), and provides a compact matrix representation of a project. It helps you visualize the dependencies between the parts of a project and highlights the information flow withi…
Once again we're happy to let you know that our productivity-focused IDE for Java Developers, IntelliJ IDEA has been listed as a 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Award finalist, in two categories: Web Development Tools and Development Environments. We hope our efforts on creating the most produc…
In forthcoming IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 release a new tool will be available. It aims to measure the code coverage for your unit tests or tests written as simple applications with the main() method. The engine that performs code coverage in IntelliJ IDEA is based on the EMMA open-source toolkit. The featur…
