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Hello! October is here to bring a selection of recent news and tips on Java, Kotlin, and related technologies and frameworks. This month’s top news is the release of Java 19, so the Java News section features a podcast with details and several pieces describing the updates. What do you think about them? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Don’t miss our Culture & Community section, which highlights less coding-heavy topics that might grab your attention, like advances in quantum computing and AI, remote teamwork, motivational insights, and more. Let’s get started!

Our intention with IntelliJ IDEA Conf is to celebrate the developer community and its desire to learn and improve everyday. We invite you to join us for this free online conference and learn from industry leaders and experts on September 29–30, 2022. Learn about a variety of topics, like Core Java, Kotlin, Spring, Kubernetes, JUnit, mobile development, and hear stories about contributing to open source projects. You'll also discover how to use JetBrains IDEs to address the challenges of remote development, and learn about our brand new IDE – Fleet. Conference Details and Registration (more

A new Java release every six months can be exciting, overwhelming, or both. Given that Java 17 is also an LTS release, it’s not just the developers but enterprises also noticing it. If you have been waiting to move on from Java 8 or 11, now is the time to weigh its advantages. In this blog post, I will limit the coverage of Java 17 to its language features – Sealed Classes and Pattern Matching for switch. I’ll cover what these features are, why you might need them, and how you can start using them in IntelliJ IDEA. I will also highlight how these features can reduce the cognitive complexity

When working with IntelliJ IDEA, do you prefer to work with your keyboard over your mouse? If so, you are in for a treat! In this blog post we’ll show you 10 places where you didn’t know you could avoid using the mouse for everyday tasks. (more…)

Register now and join us for our next IntelliJ IDEA Live Stream of Testcontainers: From Zero to Hero. In this live stream, Marco Behler, Developer Advocate @JetBrains, will help you get started with Testcontainers for your integration, or UI tests, using your favorite IDE, IntelliJ IDEA. Day: Wednesday Date: Aug 18, 2021 Time: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CEST (more…)

We have all played games - on our desktops, laptops, tablets, or mobile phones. Do we enjoy them? Yes, we do. Games are addictive and command our attention. This is one of the reasons why even your web browser shows a game when you lose internet connection. A lot of you might have discovered it when you hit the Space key in despair. Have you thought about creating a game of your own but weren't sure how to go about it? If you are a Java or a Kotlin developer, this session can help you get started. On July 21, 2021, we hosted the live stream ‘FXGL - Cross-platform JavaFX Game Engine for J

On February 10, 2021, we hosted the live stream Using Maven in IntelliJ IDEA by Java Champion and Java Group Leader Chandra Guntur, a very dear friend and amazing speaker. In this session, Chandra Guntur demonstrated some of his best tips for using Apache Maven with IntelliJ IDEA. You can find the slides from this presentation at this repository, and here’s the recording of the session. These tips could be useful no matter how much experience you have with Maven in IntelliJ IDEA. I'd like to highlight some of the most exciting features of using Maven in IntelliJ IDEA. If you want a comprehensi

Register now and join us for our next IntelliJ IDEA Live Stream of FXGL: Cross-platform JavaFX Game Engine for Java and Kotlin. In this live stream, Almas Baimagambetov, Senior Lecturer in Game Development at the University of Brighton, will talk about how you can use Java and Kotlin to create games using your favorite IDE, IntelliJ IDEA. As the creator of the FXGL gaming engine, he is the best person to demonstrate its capabilities. Day: Wednesday Date: July 21, 2021 Time: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CEST (more…)

June is here, which means it's almost summer for us in the northern hemisphere! With the pandemic still ongoing, it's important to try to find time to recharge and take those vacation days, if at all possible. While you're at work, you can do fun things like reading this newsletter! We've got a variety of content including feature highlights from Java 16 and Java 17 (the upcoming LTS release) as well as links about our latest banter on whether you should comment your code. I, Dalia, annotated this newsletter with collaboration from the wonderful Trisha. In case you're wondering, we, the Java

In February this year, we hosted the FIRST ever ‘IntelliJ IDEA Conf’ to kick off the celebrations of IntelliJ IDEA’s 20th anniversary. It was a two-day event in which we broadcast SEVEN hours of LIVE streaming on both the 25th and 26th of February.  It was two days of fun, learning, and excitement with butterflies in the stomach of the organizing team and the speakers. With 17 speakers, 14 sessions, 4 hosts, and over 20 volunteers, this event was attended by over 6K developers from around the world.  One of the best parts about it all was the new and unique content. The session

As humans, we all want to feel secure, to be loved and cared for. Extending that to our enterprise Spring Boot applications is feasible and important. We are excited to host a session on making your ubiquitous Spring Boot applications secure. Register now and join us for the live stream of Fixing Security Flaws in Spring Boot Applications Using IntelliJ IDEA and Snyk! In this live stream, Brian Vermeer, Java Champion and Developer Advocate at Snyk, will demonstrate how you can find security flaws in your Spring Boot applications and also fix them using IntelliJ IDEA and Snyk. Day: Wednesday