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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 cont

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

Last September, we announced the start of the JetBrains Marketplace Early Access Program, and we are very grateful to the 100+ individual plugin developers and companies who participated in this EAP and shared their feedback with the Marketplace team. It was a fantastic journey for all of us, and it definitely proved that we have a community of plugin developers for JetBrains tools who are truly awesome! JetBrains Marketplace platform is an evolutionary new step for the plugins repository which turns it into a marketplace for third-party plugin developers to sell their plugins and take adva

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 include Java functionality as a plugin to other products, and other plugins such as Gradle can now take optional dependencies on Java, and still work if Java isn’t available. The new plugin is not visible in Settings | Plugins and cannot be switched off, so there should be no impact on end users. However, if you’re writing a plugin for Inte

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 causes performance issues with git, in particular, every git fetch is very slow. To improve the experience of working with the intellij-community repository, both for us and for our contributors, we have removed these tags. We're currently deciding on whether they are needed on GitHub and what our tagging strategy will be going f

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 in all IntelliJ-based IDEs. In IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1 we extracted such common classes to a separate platform-impl.jar file. Similarly, we extracted common platform API classes from openapi.jar to platform-api.jar. This can help to decrease build and startup time for the IDE, and also makes layout of different IDEs more consi

As our plugin ecosystem grows, we want to give developers the same experience they have come to expect from our IDEs. Today we are happy to announce the integration of the Plugin Verifier tool for the Plugins Repository. This will allow you to check the binary compatibility between the IntelliJ IDEA‑based IDE builds and the IntelliJ Platform plugins as you upload them. With the recent update of the Plugins Repository, you can see the results of the plugin verification for each update of an IntelliJ Platform plugin which has been uploaded to the Plugins Repository. The results of the v

Historically, all libraries used for building IntelliJ have been stored, as JAR files, directly in the IntelliJ git repositories. This approach has several downsides, such as increasing the size of the git repo whenever we need to update to a new version. Also, who wants to manually manage dependencies and versions these days? We've recently made some changes to try and improve this situation. (more…)