It’s always nice to start the day with a fresh build of IntelliJ IDEA and its fresh-out-of-the-oven features. But that pales in comparison with being the first explorer of final Java 8 support in your favorite IDE! IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 RC2 is available for download, shipping final improvements for Java 8 support just a few days ahead of its official release. As you may remember, we’ve already blogged about the coding assistance for Java 8 (in v12 and v13).  Now let’s see what new exciting features v13.1 can offer. In addition to overall enhancements in support, IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 comes with a

As you might know IntelliJ IDEA 12 will bring support for new features of Java 8 language. Though this is still in progress, you can try some of these features now in IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP. Here we would like to provide some details on method and constructor refereces support. IntelliJ IDEA as always provides a way to transform existing code to use new features. Dedicated inspection finds and highlights anonymous types which can be replaced with a method reference. After you apply provided quick-fix, it gets just a line of code. There is also another inspection that checks if a lambda e