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We are pleased to announce the public Early Access Program (EAP) of the new Bazel plugin for IntelliJ IDEA by JetBrains. It is available on the JetBrains Marketplace for IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3. This initial release supports Bazel projects focusing exclusively on Java and Kotlin.

Application security is a critical requirement in modern software development. The latest release of IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3.1 – along with the optional new Security Analysis by Qodana plugin – elevates your security efforts with advanced interprocedural data flow analysis capabilities for code written…

Last year Gradle announced a new experimental project called Declarative Gradle that aims to make Gradle build scripts easier to read and use. Instead of writing detailed instructions for how to build your project, Declarative Gradle allows you to describe what your software needs (like libraries, a…

This series of blog posts covers several ways that code analysis in IntelliJ IDEA can help you find and fix problems in your code. In the previous posts, we first looked at how the IDE can help you prevent problems while working with code in the editor before moving on to how to resolve problems thr…

Developers usually spend more time reading existing code than writing new code. To understand the existing codebase of an application, developers spend a good amount of time looking at how various frameworks and libraries are configured and how different components interact with each other. While…

In IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, K2 mode is out of Beta and is now Stable and ready for general use.

Find out how Qodana supports code quality for Moovit – a popular commuter app serving 1.5 billion users in over 3,500 cities – has become a critical part of people’s daily transit since its inception in 2012. 

IntelliJ IDEA’s power and wide range of functionality can make it somewhat resource-hungry. Depending on the project you’re working with, the IDE has been known to lag, which can naturally be frustrating. Perhaps the most common scenario in which developers are required to wait is when opening a …

Most software applications use SQL databases on account of their reliability, consistency, and maturity when it comes to handling structured data. The database schema evolves over time as business requirements change to add new features or update existing ones. Object-relational mapping (ORM) fra…

Following up on our previous article in which we shared some great multi-author blogs to follow, today we have a curated selection of personal blogs from top Java experts. These experts aren’t just the best at what they do – they’re also great at sharing their knowledge in ways that are easy to u…

Spring Boot is an application framework for the Java platform designed to make it easy to build Spring-powered applications. Its opinionated convention-over-configuration approach to building Spring applications improves developer productivity. IntelliJ IDEA provides extensive coding assistance f…

As developers, we spend more time maintaining existing code than we do writing new code. Any tools that can help make this easier can save us a lot of time. In this blog post series, we’ll look at several ways that code analysis in IntelliJ IDEA can help you find and fix problems in your code. In…