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IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2 comes with support for Groovy 2.5 features, and for the current draft of the Groovy 3.0 specification (note that Groovy 3.0 is in alpha and functionality may change in the future). (more…)…

IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1 is coming! With dozens of incredible new features and improvements added already; it’s time to put the icing on the cake and tell you about our enhanced support for Groovy, read on! First of all, the ability to refactor Groovy files and Groovy modules has been extended. Now y…

September is a busy conference month, in particular a number of the Java-related JetBrains team were at JavaZone and JavaOne.  To save you some time, cash, and pain, October's annotated monthly is going to be a little heavy on links to videos and slides - we go to conferences so that you don't have …

Say hello to the fresh IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 EAP build, which brings several new features worth checking out. Support for Polyglot Maven First of all, we've added the support for Polyglot Maven. In case you don't know, this is a set of Maven extensions that allows the POM file to be written in …

Compiling Groovy code is typically slower than compiling Java code, but in 14.1 we took a swing at speeding it up. First, we're now supporting Groovy-Eclipse compiler that handles Java and Groovy simultaneously, which brings a noticeable performance gain. So, if you're compiling your projects in …

Here’s a few stories we’ve been reading on the Java beat this month, straight from the source. If you have any news or articles you would like to see here on the Java Annotated Monthly, you can reach me, Breandan dot Considine at JetBrains or @breandan. Java Java EE 8 Update - With the announcemen…

Today we have released IntelliJ IDEA 132.197, one more preview build of the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 13. The build brings a new bunch of enhancements including better Groovy support. Find the full list of changes in Release Notes. Feel free to share your feedback on our discussion forum and subm…

This is a cross-post from JetBrains Company Blog. Meet JetBrains team members Andrey Cheptsov and Yann Cebron September 9-12 at SpringOne 2GX 2013 in Santa Clara, California. Over four action-packed days there will be more than 100 Java sessions including one by JetBrains. We encourage you to …

Here I would like to tell you about some of the Groovy language support improvements available in IntelliJ IDEA 11.1. Unused Symbol Highlighting If a class, method or property is unused even if it is in fact public, you may notice it immediately with new unused symbol highlighting feature. (more&…

Probably the last EAP build (before RC) of IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 is available for download. New settings are added to Groovy Colors & Fonts settings to highlight local variables, parameters, reassigned local variables, reassigned parameters and method declarations in the editor. This build inc…

If you use completion autopopup in IntelliJ IDEA 11, you may have seen "n variants..." suggestions: This means there are two StringUtil classes available, neither of them is imported, and IDE can't choose which of them to put to the first place. When you choose such variant no new import statemen…

We've added a couple of new productivity features in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 to make working with Groovy tests two bits more pleasant: 1. Now you can create tests for Groovy classes the same way you do in Java. You just need to invoke Create Test intention on the header of the class. 2. To navigate to …