Maven

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 …

Today we have just released a fresh IntelliJ IDEA 14 EAP build, as always packed with new features and enhancements. Everything what's new is listed on the download page, but we'd like to highlight several improvements and explain them with a little bit more detail here. First of all, the Rese…

Yes, you've read it correctly. No mistake here. It's been one year since we open-sourced IntelliJ IDEA and announced its free Community Edition. If you are curious to know the results of that bold move and see some stats and charts — check out this article on DZone. Today, one year later, Inte…

JARs of many frameworks and their dependencies get updated too often now. But you do not want to turn your project into a Maven project just because of this? Then this feature is just for you. In IntelliJ IDEA 10 you can search for & download libraries with dependencies for any framework publis…

Anyone working on large Maven projects knows well about how hard it is to keep in mind all the dependencies between modules and libraries; and even harder, to resolve conflicts between them. We've greatly improved Maven Dependencies Diagram to make this whole thing a lot simpler. (more…)…

Sometimes while editing pom.xml one needs to define a property and replace the occurrences of some value - artifact version, for example, - with this property. Now you can use the new IDEA  Introduce Property refactoring for these purposes. To invoke refactoring, select the string that should be re…

Since the latest IntelliJ IDEA  9.0.2 EAP the IDE contains a bit of new Maven-related pom.xml editor features. 1. Easier Navigation You can navigate to "Dependency usages" from "dependencyManagement" of your parent pom.xml: and back: You can navigate through projects tree 2. Smarter Paths '…

Try the last EAP of IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 to test new 'Generate' actions for Maven pom.xml editor.  Type "Alt+Insert" to invoke the "Generate..." popup menu and select an action to run. IntelliJ IDEA actually runs live template inside to complete the code generation Let us know what you think abou…

If you are working with Flexmojos Maven projects in IntelliJ IDEA 9, and have imported Flexmojos project as described in this post, and are planning to debug your application and browse through Flex SDK sources, this post is a must-read for you. Inside you will find details on how to configure Inte…