Cloud Tools

Hooray! Last week we had the pleasure of hosting a live webinar in partnership with AWS, presented by Mike Deck, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. Mike gave a comprehensive overview of what serverless is all about and what the serverless developer experience feels like. Mike explained the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and how it integrates with IntelliJ IDEA to provide a rich development environment. In case you missed the webinar, here's the video recording: If you prefer reading, please find below a detailed transcript of the webinar. (more…)

The Spring is a whole month away from knocking on our doors, so we have decided to warm up you a little in these cold days: welcome the early preview of IntelliJ IDEA 13.1, the upcoming regular update of your beloved IDE. IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 introduces the new Spring API, which will enable third-party developers to write custom IntelliJ IDEA plugins for Spring frameworks. Read the official API documentation for more details. The preview also includes: General features The new (and awesome) postfix code completion New inspections Interface may be annotated @FunctionalInterface

you deploy your applications to the cloud, you will be glad to hear about support for Jelastic cloud platform in IntelliJ IDEA. In case you didn’t know, Jelastic is a rapidly growing cloud platform for Java applications, the winner of the Duke’s Choice Awards in 2012. In December Jelastic announced a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA which helps to deploy applications with one click. The plugin also lets you manage environments and browse the log files for your running applications. To get more insight into how it all works, check out a quick tutorial showing how to deploy a simple Web application

In case you didn’t know, the new release of IntelliJ IDEA comes with deployment tools for CloudBees, a rapidly growing cloud platform for Java applications. At the moment IntelliJ IDEA allows you to connect to your CloudBees account and view/manage deployed applications. Please follow this quick tutorial to learn how to deploy a simple web application to CloudBees from IntelliJ IDEA. We hope you’ll enjoy your experience in the clouds with IntelliJ IDEA 12. Feel free to share your feedback with us on the discussion forum and in our issue tracker. Develop with Pleasure!