If you’re following our recent news, you already know that last week we released the new massive IntelliJ IDEA update, 2017.2. However, we didn’t mention its database tools much in the release announcement, so now it’s time to catch up on that, because there’s plenty of new features in that area. Amazon Redshift and Microsoft Azure These cloud database providers are now supported out of the box with dedicated drivers and their specific SQL syntaxes. If you’re already using any of them via the standard SQL Server or PostgreSQL drivers, make sure that you migrate to the new dedicate

From time to time, we pick interesting IntelliJ IDEA plugins from our repository to tell about them in our blog. Today's choice is more than just an interesting plugin: MS Open Tech Tools is a plugin for Android developers developed by Microsoft Open Technologies in close collaboration with the Microsoft’s Office 365 and Azure engineering teams. This plugin enables developers of Android applications to connect to the Office 365 services and Azure Mobile Services, as well as developers of Java middleware to connect to the Azure compute services. The plugin comes with the Server Explorer

Today’s Java landscape is growing larger and faster than ever, with over 30,000 new Java projects created on GitHub each month. Here on the Java Annotated Monthly we leave no stone unturned to bring you the most important news and developments around the world. All the news, fit to println(“Develop with pleasure!”); Java Project Valhalla - Project Valhalla is an exploratory group headed by Java Language Architect and lambda designer Brian Goetz. Valhalla seeks to introduce a number of language features in Java 10 and beyond, from value types, to enhanced volatil