JetBrains IDEs are well known for their ability to understand code. They can track declarations, check references and types, and collect possible execution paths. Thanks to all this static analysis, you are able to rename and move things around safely, get appropriate code completion, and get warned with a message saying “hey, this won't run” from the code inspection if you are adding something th

This month, we have quite a bit of news on Java 16, since the first release candidate build is out. We also cover the sunsetting of Bintray and JCenter, as well as including the usual mix of Java-and-related-technologies news, articles and tips. (more…)

This year, your favorite IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, turns 20. We are celebrating this momentous milestone by hosting our first ever IntelliJ IDEA Conf on February 25–26, 2021! We invite you all to attend this two-day event, hosted by the creators and developers of IntelliJ IDEA. You'll get the inside scoop on the evolution of IntelliJ IDEA; its features and how to use them; tips, tricks and best practice

It's becoming more and more common to run the applications you’re developing in Docker containers or on remote machines, rather than in your local environment. Wouldn’t it be handy to run, test, and debug applications remotely without leaving IntelliJ IDEA? Well, our new Run Targets feature makes this possible. Please note this is an initial version of Run Targets. We plan to make it better in fut

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 t

In this video we're going to take a look at IntelliJ IDEA's built in terminal. This performs the same function as your operating system's terminal or command feature, but using the terminal inside IntelliJ IDEA has a number of benefits. Opening the IntelliJ IDEA Terminal Window In this example we have a simple Spring Boot application that needs a running MongoDB database. We can open the terminal

On the 10th July 2020, JetBrains hosted a Technology Day for Java. We had 10 presentations and the videos for them are available here. Over the coming weeks, in no particular order, we'd like to share with you extra resources that our speakers kindly provided and any links to further reading or code samples. We hosted Trisha Gee talking to us everything that's happened since Java 8. Java 8 was a h

There are lots of features in IntelliJ IDEA that can help you to focus and maximize your productivity. A big factor in helping your productivity can come from how the UI and, more importantly, your code are presented to you. There are many scenarios: reading and analyzing code to understand something, editing statements to change the behavior slightly, writing a big chunk of the implementation, c

The Project tool window shows you the tree of your application along with its dependencies. It also allows you to create new classes, files, and folders, add frameworks, rename and relocate items, and so on. In IntelliJ IDEA, there are several options that can make your work with the Project tool window even more convenient. Let’s take a look at them. (more…)

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…)

Every developer has a unique workflow and as such might need a different set of tools to work comfortably in IntelliJ IDEA. This is why we offer an extensive tool set in both the Ultimate and Community editions of IntelliJ IDEA to help transform your coding experience. But with a wealth of options comes a new challenge: navigating around them. So how can you keep everything you need – and nothing

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

I am pleased to announce that EAP 10 of the Big Data Tools plugin for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate is available from today. Our goal was to fix as many problems as possible and improve the plugin from the inside out. In addition to some under-the-hood changes, two visible improvements have been made: With just a couple of mouse clicks, you can enable SSH tunnels to forward ports for Hadoop and Spark co