The upcoming 2020.3 releases will include internal changes related to a significant redesign of the representation of project models in the IntelliJ Platform. This shouldn’t affect any plugins using the IntelliJ API properly and which don’t access internal classes. However, we want to give an overview of the changes and offer some insight into the reasons behind them. There are several problems with the approach that has been used to represent the project model (configuration of modules, libraries, facet, artifacts, etc.) in the IntelliJ Platform for more than 15 years. First, different projec

IntelliJ Platform Plugin Template IntelliJ Platform Plugin Template, our GitHub-based repository, provides a pure boilerplate to make it easier to create a new plugin project. It delivers curated solutions for handling the changelog and supporting Kotlin and Java sources, and provides preconfigured GitHub Actions that take care of plugin quality and deployment. Learn more here: IntelliJ Platform Plugin Template. SDK Docs content updates We’ve added several new reference pages and tutorials to our SDK Docs, including: Settings Disposer and Disposable Marketing All plugin code samples are als

The source code of the IntelliJ project was recently migrated to Java 11. We still have some modules which are compiled to be compatible with older Java versions to support running users’ projects under these versions. However most of the platform and plugin modules use Java 11 now, and the upcoming 2020.3 versions of all IntelliJ-based IDEs will require Java 11 to start. What does it mean for you? If you develop a plugin, you can use new language features and APIs from Java 11, but only if the since-build attribute in plugin.xml is set to 203. If your plugin distribution needs to run on multi

Today we are speaking with Scott McKinny of Manifold Systems (scott@manifold.systems,) the author of the Manifold plugin for IntelliJ Platform-based IDEs. As a Java compiler plugin, Manifold adds new capabilities directly and seamlessly to the Java language such as type-safe metaprogramming, extension methods, operator overloading, and more. Welcome to the JetBrains Platform Blog, Scott. Before we discuss the plugin, would you tell us a bit about yourself and your background? Most of my programming experience is rooted in tooling. It goes way back to my employment with Borland beginning in 199

We have implemented a plugin-signing mechanism and are going to introduce it step by step.

We want to give you an update regarding the status of the JavaFX runtime and JCEF in the IntelliJ Platform. TL;DR Starting with version 2020.2 of the IDE, which will be released at the end of July 2020, we are no longer bundling JavaFX with the default JetBrains Runtime. As an alternative to these APIs, we now provide integration with JCEF, which is a Java port of the CEF framework for embedding Chromium-based browsers in applications using Swing. If you’re thinking about developing a new plugin or adding new features to an existing plugin, JCEF can offer you a new easy way to display web

Just over a year ago, we announced the launch of paid plugins on the JetBrains Marketplace. Today we want to highlight some of the major updates we’ve made to paid plugin functionality on the Marketplace and in our IDEs during the first year of the Marketplace’s operation.

TL;DR We are going to use organizations in search instead of the vendor field from the plugin descriptor. Several weeks ago we introduced Organizations. One of the reasons we implemented them was to simplify plugin search for end users. From now on, we are going to use organizations in the search index instead of the vendor field from the plugin descriptor. (more…)

TL;DR We have added the ability to consolidate authors and their plugins in an Organization in Marketplace. There are almost 5,000 plugins in our Plugin repository, including over 20 paid plugins. These plugins are created by both individual users and companies. To increase the credibility of plugins, simplify the search process for end-users, and facilitate the support of plugins, we’ve added a new entity to the Marketplace called "Organization". An organization comprises authors and their plugins. It provides users with information such as the organization’s website, email, and ad

The recording of our January 16 webinar, How We Built Comma, the Raku IDE, on the IntelliJ Platform featuring Jonathan Worthington, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. This webinar tells the story of how Edument built an IDE for the Raku programming language using the IntelliJ Platform. Building an IDE from scratch would have been prohibitively expensive. By contrast, building on the IntelliJ Platform meant starting from a mature base, getting a great deal of generic IDE functionality for free, and therefore being able to f

JetBrains Account and sales-related applications will have 3 hours of scheduled downtime on January 19, 2020, starting at 9 am CET. Since Marketplace has integrations with these services, the following functionality will not be available during this period: Uploading new plugins and new versions of the plugins Editing plugins information Buying paid plugins Showing sales information for paid plugins authors In addition, it will not be possible to verify acceptance of the license agreement, so users of plugins.jetbrains.com will see a banner with a link to the agreement and it will

We are introducing a JetBrains Platform Slack to help the JetBrains plugin development community keep in touch. This Slack is NOT an official support channel. It is a place where the community hang out along with some members of the JetBrains team (:jetbrains: icon .) For official support, please use the support channels, where messages are also persisted. JetBrains Platform Slack aims to be an inclusive space that is committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, ability, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and religi