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Today we're announcing the initial release of Projector – a tool and framework for running JetBrains IDEs and Swing apps remotely over your network. As you may know, Swing is a graphical widget toolkit for Java. Current JetBrains IDEs use Swing to draw the UI. The same is true for other IntelliJ-based IDEs, like Android Studio. Even though it is generally a good thing that JetBrains IDEs and S

IntelliJ IDEA has reached an incredible milestone – its 20th anniversary. Can you believe it's been 20 years already? Just think about it: we launched our product when smartphones and social media were not present in our daily lives, we had to watch movies on DVDs, and the Java virtual machine hadn’t even become open source. Twenty years ago, IntelliJ IDEA was created out of a desire to make deve

Today we’d like to thank our users who have been helping us improve our IntelliJ IDEA localization plugins! You can now download the new plugin version for your IDE! Some numbers Since we announced the first EAP version of the IntelliJ IDEA localization plugins, we’ve seen an amazing response from our users resulting in more than 247,000 downloads of the Simplified Chinese version, 9,900 for the

Java 15 introduces a new language feature – sealed classes and interfaces. The language syntax allows you to restrict the classes or interfaces that can extend or implement other classes or interfaces. The goal is to let you define the possible hierarchies in your business domain in a declarative manner, so that it is easier to process them. This language feature is introduced as a preview languag