The new EAP build for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 is here! Let’s take a closer look at what the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2020.2 has in store for Jakarta EE, Quarkus, HTTP Client, Micronaut, Amazon SQS API, and OpenAPI and Swagger. Jakarta EE 9 support Jakarta EE 9 has now reached the M1 phase and is scheduled for release this September. The upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 is already fully prepared for this release. All the features that were available for Java EE are now available for Jakarta EE as well. The IDE now supports the following Jakarta EE technologies: CDI, JPA, Batch, Bean V

We’re happy to announce a new webinar on Productive Web Development in Java with IntelliJ IDEA, Spring Boot, and Vaadin. Join us Tuesday, June 30, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CEST In this webinar, we cover tips and tricks to help you become a more productive web app developer. We build a small web app using Vaadin's Java API and Spring Boot. We show you how to set up IntelliJ IDEA to automatically reload your app and browser as you develop, and cover our favorite shortcuts and hacks for productive and enjoyable web app development in Java. (more…)

Java turned 25 in May this year, and JetBrains is thrilled about this milestone! We are celebrating it by hosting our first-ever virtual event for Java enthusiasts – JetBrains Technology Day for Java – which will be free for all to attend. We invite you all to attend this one-day event, in which industry speakers will give presentations about a variety of Java topics, from Modern Java, Frameworks, and Testing to Garbage Collectors and OSS Contributions. There will be something for everyone. Check out the event page for details. (more…)

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 EAP3 is out! Here are the main highlights of this new build: Support for Git installed in WSL2. Better autocompletion for Stream API methods. New presentation of the search results in Search Everywhere. The build output presentation improvements. Accessibility improvements. As usual, the EAP builds for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate are free to use, but they expire within 30 days of the build date. (more…)

The next IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 EAP build is here with a pack of new features! Download this EAP build from our website, or update to it from the Toolbox App. As usual, the EAP builds for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate are free to use, but they expire within 30 days of the build date. Java Analyzing the exception stack trace with dataflow analysis To make it easier for you to investigate why a Java program is failing, we’ve supplemented exception stack trace analysis with dataflow analysis. The IDE will help you find out exactly what happened to cause the variable to have an unexpected value.

The Early Access Program for our next major release, IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2, is now open! This upcoming release will be loaded with plenty of cool new features, and you can already try some of them in the very first EAP build. The features available to explore include full support for GitHub Pull Requests, the brand new Inspections Widget, Maven Wrapper support, HPROF enhancements, and much more. You can download EAP builds from our website, get them from the Toolbox App, or update using snaps if you use Ubuntu. As usual, the EAP builds for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate are free to use, but they

This is a guest blog post from Iván López, one of the core members of the Micronaut and Grails development team at OCI In November 2019, IntelliJ IDEA introduced support for Micronaut, making it even easier to build fast, lightweight microservices and serverless applications with the framework. As JetBrains continues to add more Micronaut features to IntelliJ IDEA, the Micronaut team at Object Computing finds that the two technologies work extremely well together. Here are five specific features that make the Micronaut IntelliJ IDEA combo a terrific tool for any developer looking to boos

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1, the first major update this year, has just been released! This new version adds support for Java 14 and new features for a number of web and test frameworks. It also upgrades the debugger with dataflow analysis assistance, adds a new LightEdit mode, downloads and configures the JDK for you, and does so many more cool things! (more…)

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1 Beta has just been updated. While this build mostly polishes the new features for the upcoming v2020.1, there are a couple of improvements that we haven’t already announced. Code Vision Store Run Configurations as files Code Vision We have taken our first steps toward implementing the Code Vision functionality, similar to the one implemented in JetBrains Rider. As of IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1, Code Vision can show you the usages and implementations of Java symbols. To enable the feature, go to Preferences / Settings | Editor | Inlay Hints | Java, choose Code Vision, a

Selenium is a popular framework for testing web applications in the Java world, and we have decided to improve IDE support for selenium-java and its accompanying tools and libraries. The upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1 Ultimate introduces initial support for Selenium with a new Selenium UI Automation Testing plugin. The new plugin supports the most popular JVM frameworks for UI testing and reporting libraries: Selenium, Selenide, Geb, Serenity BDD, and Allure Framework. IntelliJ IDEA’s enhancements for Selenium include a new project wizard, highlighting, inspections and code completion in

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1 goes Beta today! This means we’ve packed the upcoming v2020.1 release full of all the major things planned, and we are now polishing everything and fixing bugs. To remind you of the key highlights, v2020.1 adds support for Java 14, downloads and sets up Java for you, adds the light-editing mode, renders Javadocs in the editor, helps you refactor methods and classes on the go, adds a bunch of improvements for Spring and microservice frameworks, and does so much more. Here’s a quick overview of the most exciting new features in this upcoming release: To learn mo

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1 EAP has just been updated. The new build can render Javadocs right in the editor and enables you to create and split terminal sessions, vertically or horizontally, multiple times. In-editor Javadocs rendering Split terminal sessions vertically/horizontally In-editor Javadocs rendering Reading Javadocs in the editor might be annoying because of all the tags you have to cut through, especially when you need to interact with the reference links and images. This is why we’re adding a way to render Javadocs right in the editor. To enable this new experimental feature, g