Fresh IntelliJ IEA 2016.2 EAP build is out and ready. Among the usual bugfixes it also brings something special: Breadcrumbs for Java code. Until now breadcrumbs were only available in HTML and XML code, where they have proven to be super handy for tracking of the editing position as well as traversing the tag tree. Now breadcrumbs work for Java, too, where instead of tags they let you navigate through classes, lambda expressions and methods: To enable this feature, go to Settings → Editor → General → Appearance and select Show breadcrumbs. Your thoughts and impressions about

This week brings a new article from the 30-day guide on the most tricky features of IntelliJ IDEA. Today we will talk about navigation, and how it helps you to faster switch between the pieces of code you are working on, and therefore be more productive. Did you know? When you start IntelliJ IDEA for the first time, all of its setting set to their default values. Over time, as you are using the IDE more and more, you become more familiar with it so you know how to change the default settings for more efficiency. You probably noticed that the navigation bar in the top of the window is usele

Sometimes you invoke an action and you don't get what you wanted immediately. In such cases it may help to invoke the action again by pressing the same shortcut. In basic code completion (Ctrl+Space) this will list non-imported classes: It works in similar way for smart-type and class name completions: In File Structure popup (Ctrl+F12) you will show inherited members with it: When introducing a variable (Ctrl+Alt+V), you may want to reassign an existing one instead: I may have missed something, but all this is already available in IntelliJ IDEA 11. And there's a couple more nice t

We know that one of the most popular ways to navigate within a file is File Structure popup. We've recently redesigned it to make the navigation more comfortable. New File Structure is tree-based and shows everything in your file when you first invoke it with Control+F12. The following short screencast should explain better what we did. Did you notice you can use Show Quick Doc and Show Implementations action from File Structure popup? You can already try it in the latest IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 EAP. Let us know what you think and we can improve it even further before 11.1 is shipped.

How often do you use 'Go To Class/File/Symbol' feature in IntelliJ IDEA? Pretty often I would guess. But do you know everything you can do with it? Let me go through a couple of often overlooked gems. Do you know that when you search for file or class you can preview an image (Ctrl-Shift-I) or see a quick doc (Ctrl-Q)? It is also possible to open multiple items in the editor (multiselect with Ctrl or Shift) or run multiple selected tests right from the search (Ctrl-Shift-F10). And you can open all search results in the 'Find' tool-window to process them one by one later. Did I ment

When working with big projects we always come back to 10-20 items/files where we do the most of our work. IntelliJ IDEA helps you collecting all these items in one place — 'Favorites'. It's easy to add a file, a class or a method to the Favorites by simply pressing Alt+Shift+F. You can also drag and drop items to the Favorites. And now with 'Favorites' being a separate tool-window, just press Alt+2 (or Cmd+2) whenever you need to access one of your precious items again.

We've slightly redesigned Navigation Bar and added some new sweet features. Watch this short demo for the details and a general overview of NavBar abilities.

Yes! The sunny Spring has finally come to St.Petersburg too. However, it's not that "Spring" we want to talk now... We realize that many of you use the Spring framework in your every day work. So, many should be interested in the new Spring-related features that can be found in the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 release. 1. Better navigation between xml configs and annotated stereotype components 2. Advanced usage search for @Autowired beans 3. More inspections for your configs, for instance, deprecated classes and members highlighting. 4. More powerful placeholder support. All spring model

IntelliJ Idea X adds quick navigation for Grails actions and GSP pages. Whenever an action has a same-named view, IDEA creates a gutter icon opposite to the action name. Click that icon and the corresponding page is opened: As for going back, the GSP editor has a link to the appropriate action at the top:

If you use Client Bundle interface in a GWT application, you will enjoy an advanced navigation and coding assistance that IntelliJ IDEA 10 provides. ClientBundle methods will be marked with icons allowing you to quickly navigate to a corresponding resource: For interfaces implementing CssResource IntelliJ IDEA will also check that Java interfaces methods are consistent with CSS classes  and will suggest to automatically add missing methods: Download IntelliJ IDEA X EAP builds to try this new feature.

Since the latest IntelliJ IDEA  9.0.2 EAP the IDE contains a bit of new Maven-related pom.xml editor features. 1. Easier Navigation You can navigate to "Dependency usages" from "dependencyManagement" of your parent pom.xml: and back: You can navigate through projects tree 2. Smarter Paths 'Path reference' notion were added to the editor to enhance the code completion, usages search and rename refactoring of project paths. 3. More intelligent plugins configuration IntelliJ IDEA analyses plugin parameter types and adds smart value editors for plugin configuration tags. You feedback

Contexts and Dependency Injection (JSR-299) support in Maia has been significantly improved. Reworked tool window: New code inspections: Injection points inconsistency. Detects Injection Points with ambiguous and unsatisfied dependencies @Typed annotation errors. Unproxyable bean types inconsistency. And more: Improved Rename refactoring for @Named beans Better navigation to @Typed beans Enhanced dependencies diagram, and more.