Finding Spring Beans Quickly

We'd like to introduce you to our fresh new IntelliJ IDEA Guide! We've been working on this in the background for a few months now by collecting tips and even taking some of our screencasts from YouTube and turning them into tutorials for our guide.

As you know, two of the most popular basic refactorings that IntelliJ IDEA offers are Extract Method and Inline Method. The first makes the method shorter and more readable, while the other minimizes the number of unneeded methods, and makes the code more straightforward. In IntelliJ IDEA you can use both these actions in a row to achieve a more complex result – we call this process multistep refa

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…)