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Yesterday we’ve released a fresh update of the Big Data Tools plugin in which we’ve added the integration with AWS S3. With this update, you'll be able to browse and manage files in your S3 buckets right from the IDE. In yesterday’s announcement we mentioned that there is also another update to the Super-Early-Bird channel. What is this channel? A way the IntelliJ Platform offers to deliver unstable builds with experimental features. All you have to do to try the experimental features of Big Data Tools, is to register a custom plugin repository URL in the IDE settings. This can be done by cli

The holidays came early this year! Now, when I’ve actually looked at the calendar, I think it’s exactly on time. Whatever the case, we have some presents for you! Just today we’ve released a new update to our Big Data Tools plugin! We hope the update will make your workflow of working with Big Data a bit nicer and more convenient. The major new feature of this update is the integration of AWS S3. Now, in either the Big Data Tools tool window or the Big Data Tools Connections settings, you can configure an S3 bucket by providing the name of the bucket you’d like to access, the root path (in c

Hooray! It’s been a while since our last update on Big Data Tools. Our team has been busy addressing your feedback, fixing bugs, and adding important new features. First of all, the Big Data Tools plugin is now available in IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 Beta. In case you don’t know, this is a new upcoming version of the IDE focused entirely on performance and UX. The update brings tons of major and minor improvements overall that will make working with the IDE even more enjoyable. Second, in order to help you get started with the Big Data Tools plugin, we’ve added the official documentation p

Hooray! Today we have some exciting news for you. After all, it is not often JetBrains introduces new developer tools. Now that you’re excited as well, we’re very pleased to announce Big Data Tools – a new IntelliJ IDEA plugin that integrates Spark and brings support for editing and running Zeppelin notebooks. Now with the Big Data Tools plugin, you can create, edit, and run Zeppelin notebooks without ever having to leave your favorite IDE. The plugin offers smart navigation, code completion, inspections & quick-fixes, and refactoring inside notebooks. So, what precisely does the plugin sup

Though we’ve been silent for quite a while recently, it doesn’t mean we’ve not been busy, so today we’re presenting the new features for Scala plugin RC for IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 that we’ve just created. (more…)

Because of its nature, Scala code is really difficult to edit without proper coding assistance. And sometimes said assistance is too slow which makes it not that useful. That's why we never stop improving our Scala plugin performance. This time we've reduced the time needed to provide coding assistance within methods with a defined return type. As a result, code completion and inspections in our latest EAP build now work much faster. Before: After (see how much faster it is, the animation is 100% real time snapshot): To give the new EAP build a try, download it from the EAP pa

Today we've released a new Scala plugin EAP build. With this build, we're happy to introduce an API that extends the IDE coding assistance to custom Scala macros. A macro is executed at compile-time and modifies the AST of your code: e.g. it can extend the class or its companion object with new methods or other code represented by the AST returned by the macro. Since IntelliJ IDEA's coding assistance is based on static code analysis, the IDE is not aware of AST changes, and can't provide appropriate code completion and inspections for the generated code. Since macros are heavily used in

For Java, in addition to the regular completion, IntelliJ IDEA provides so-called Postfix completion: it lets you modify a previously entered expression by adding a "postfix" to it and pressing Tab. This way you can transform your code without unnecessary backward caret jumps. Many users've asked us to support this feature for Scala as well. You asked, we did it: When a transformation can be applied to several expressions, the IDE will offer you a choice: Postfix completion suggestions are included in the common completion list, and if you want to see only postfix completion appli

We've recently improved the support for Scala tests in IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP a bit. Read on to find out more details. Statically computed expressions in scalaTest/specs2/uTest2 test names are now supported, which means that along with string constants you can use constructions like immutable string variables, concatenation, substring, stripSuffix, stripPrefix, toLowerCase, replace, or trim. scalaTest/specs2/uTest2 tests and their hierarchy is displayed in the File Structure view when you click Show scala tests. Don't forget that your feedback is always welcome in our discussion

We have released a new EAP version of the Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP. Here is a couple of new features we have added: Debugging: stopping at Lambda Expressions When you add a breakpoint to a line that contains a lambda expression, the IDE offers you several options where it should stop. Choose any lambda expression if there are several of them, or stop at the whole line. You can use the Run to cursor function on a lambda expression as well. You can use Ctrl+F8 to add a breakpoint. Then the lambda expression that the cursor is placed on will be selected in the list. Pr

Scala Plugin 1.7 for IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP brings you a number of new features and improvements, among which we'd like to highlight these two: Inline refactoring for type aliases Invoked just as any other inline refactoring, by placing the caret on an alias you want to inline and pressing Ctrl+Alt+N. For now this refactoring is only available for non-parameterized types and for aliases that are used inside of the same class. Kind projector support Kind Projector is a Scala compiler plugin that provides an easy way to create type lambdas. Scala 1.7 plugin includes inspection that suggests

If you're using the EAP update channel, you might've noticed a new version of the  Scala plugin available. In addition to a bunch of bugfixes inside the new update you'll also find a few nice new features. Coding assistance for interpolated strings Interpolated strings is a great feature of the Scala language. Better coding assistance for writing those interpolated strings is a new feature of IntelliJ IDEA. Now it's possible to quickly turn a string to an interpolated string simply by adding a variable reference. Notice  that the IDE will take care of adding brackets: We hope this add