Register now and join us for the live stream of 'Using Maven in IntelliJ IDEA'. In this live stream, Java Champion and Java User Group Leader Chandra Guntur will demonstrate working with Maven in IntelliJ IDEA. He'll cover multiple topics like creating and opening a Maven project, exploring the Maven toolbar, dependency diagrams, and much more. Day: Wednesday Date: February 10, 2021 Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm CET (more…)

This week we're doing a Live Stream on JavaFX, and I wanted to use that opportunity to refresh my JavaFX knowledge. I've been using JavaFX in a number of my demo applications over the last six years, and the one thing I've learnt is that it's a bit of a moving target, in particular since JavaFX was taken out of the JDK in Java 11. What I wanted to find out is what's the current best way to create a new JavaFX application, and how do you run it from inside IntelliJ IDEA? (more…)

IntelliJ IDEA has reached an incredible milestone – its 20th anniversary. Can you believe it's been 20 years already? Just think about it: we launched our product when smartphones and social media were not present in our daily lives, we had to watch movies on DVDs, and the Java virtual machine hadn’t even become open source. Twenty years ago, IntelliJ IDEA was created out of a desire to make development a more productive and enjoyable experience. Today IntelliJ IDEA is used and loved by over 4 million users all over the world. And this is not an exaggeration – we have users on each and every

Well 2020 is over, phew! And holy cow, I know I'm late with this month's Annotated (because I'm a real human being and like to take vacation) but even so there's a lot of stuff in this month's edition! There's more Java and Tech articles than usual and a bunch of Java news. Hang on in there for 2021, remember to continue being kind to each other, and to yourself. (more…)

The New Project Wizard can help you to create standard Java projects with different types of build systems and other common project types. In our Ultimate edition there are more project types including Java Frameworks such as Spring.

Register now and join us for the live stream of 'JavaFX: Cross-platform UI development in Java'. In this live stream, Java Champion and co-lead for OpenJFX, Johan Vos will talk about JavaFX – a modern, efficient, and fully featured toolkit for the development of cross-platform user interfaces that can be deployed on desktop, mobile, and embedded devices. Johan will cover the structure, components, and roadmap of the OpenJFX project. He'll also demonstrate using IntelliJ IDEA. Day: Wednesday Date: January 20, 2021 Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm CET (more…)

Today we’re releasing a new updated version of the language packs for JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA and other IntelliJ-based IDEs. We are grateful to our active users for sending us feedback and helping us improve the localization plugins. Special thanks It really means a lot to us to see how thoroughly you reviewed our translations, and we’re thankful for the constructive feedback you provided. We’d like to specially mention our reviewers: Jinseong Jeon, WooSuk LEE, 백기선, 권영재, Preacher, mikyou, pye52, spielberggao, hltj, bennyhuo, and, of course, Imai Masanobu who submitted a record number of 62 bu

We are back with our first bug-fix release for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3! The improved v2020.3.1 polishes the recently released features and supports Apple Silicon! That’s right, Apple fans, you can now work in IntelliJ IDEA on your Mac with an M1 chip. To start working, download a separate installer for IntelliJ IDEA for Apple Silicon on our website or in the Toolbox App (under the Available for Apple M1 section). Please note that a previously installed IntelliJ IDEA version running via Rosetta2 will not update to run natively. Update to v.2020.3.1 now and share your feedback with us! Other sign

The end of 2020 is just around the corner. What a year! Let’s look back at the past 12 months and recap the best IntelliJ IDEA: how2pro tips and tricks. (more…)

On December 17, 2020, we hosted the live stream ‘Java, Containers and IntelliJ IDEA’ by the amazing Elder Moraes, RedHat Developer Advocate, Java Champion, Board member at Sou Java, and author of multiple books on Enterprise Java. The code and presentation used in this live stream by the speaker can be accessed using this link. Elder’s presentation also includes a great comparison and summary of the tips that he demonstrated in his live demonstration. Session details In this live stream, Elder addressed four main issues – long build times for Docker images, large image sizes, maintainability

Update 12 of the Big Data Tools plugin for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm Professional, and DataGrip has been released. You can install it from the JetBrains Plugin Repository or from inside your IDE. The plugin allows you to edit Zeppelin notebooks, upload files to cloud filesystems, and monitor Hadoop and Spark clusters. In this release, we've added experimental Python support and global search inside Zeppelin notebooks. We’ve also addressed a variety of bugs. Let's talk about the details. Experimental and preliminary Python support Although PySpark in Zeppelin is getting a lot of attent

In this blog, we're going to look at 3 ways to refactor your code in IntelliJ IDEA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgWU25YwDfc This blog post covers the same material as the video with some additional tips and tricks. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher code samples and links to additional information. Simplifying your code has lots of advantages, including improving readability, tackling technical debt, and managing ever-changing requirements. The three types of refactoring we will look at in this