Tag Archives: IDE

Java functionality extracted as a plugin

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Matt Ellis

In the latest EAP build of IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2 we’ve extracted Java functionality into a separate plugin. This separates the Java implementation from the “platform” part of IntelliJ IDEA and introduces some flexibility for the future. For example, we could … Continue reading →

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Cleaning up tags on GitHub

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Matt Ellis

Since we started development on IDEA, every nightly build of each IntelliJ-based IDE was tagged in the intellij-community repository on GitHub. After 18 years of development and having 10 products, we now have more than 68,000 tags in the repository! This many tags … Continue reading →

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Updated guidance for module JARs in IntelliJ based IDEs

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Matt Ellis

When building an IntelliJ based IDE, we’ve historically packed class files from implementation modules into a single big JAR. For example, for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate this was idea.jar. However most of the classes in that JAR were IntelliJ Platform classes which are included … Continue reading →

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