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ZK framework GUI designer It would be nice if there's a ZK GUI designer in IDEA
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Freemarker Template Editor
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 An editor for freemarker templates.
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Flex2 support
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 To be able to develop Flex2 applications a la Flex2 Builder but with the rock solid, ultra usable, idea IDE.
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JBoss Seam support
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 Support for developing JBoss Seam applications i.e. project setup, include libraries, code templates and generators (like seamgen)
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WYSIWYG for JSP,JSF,HTML,XHTML etc... WYSIWYG for JSP,JSF,HTML,XHTML etc...
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Git VCS
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 VCS support for Git
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OSGi development support
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 It would be really nice to have an OSGi development support within IDEA. Features needed: * Managing OSGi manifest file via bnd. * Exposed classpath per module obey Import-Package declared in man... >>
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HAML support in Ruby plugin Currently the ruby plugin supports erb, but many of us are using HAML these days...
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JavaFX support
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PERFORMANCE In a nutshell, we'd like to see IDEA optimized as much as humanly possible for large projects. Our projects has 5,000+ files and 7,000+ java classes (by no means huge, but still large). We notice qu... >>
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Mercurial vcs support Hi, it would be nice to see suport for non-legacy vcses. Among different distributed VCSes mercurial has advantage of being really portable and fast then it comes to dealing with lots of files...
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Velocity syntax support
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 It would be nice if we could have a proper file association to .vm files which would recognize velocity macros and highlight them properly instead of showing as syntax errors in the editor.
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PHP language support
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 PHP language support is also a good feature, having worked both PHP and Java and switching from one IDE to another is painfully tiresome. Why not integrate this into intellij ? PLEASE
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Scala language plugin
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 Scala is to Java what Struts (and later frameworks) is to servlet development: a large step for mankind. I\'d like to see the Scala plugin (currently in alpha or something) reach a releasable version.... >>
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FindBugs plugins It would be great to have FindBugs (http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/) integration in IDEA. (Perhaps \"bugs\" number showing next to class/package like in code coverage?)
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Java FX Plugin for Java FX/F3. There are NetBeans and Eclipse plugins for this already, it would be nice to catch-up.
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Maven 2 Add support for bidirectional dependencies between idea and Maven 2. To be able create projects from pom's (already exist as maven plugin) but also to be able to update the pom from idea and run goals
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Struts2 Support
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Erlang language support Interest in this cute functional language from the 80s is quickly growing. A basic custom language implementation in IDEA would be nice. One good attribute is that the language can be considered st... >>
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Spring Web Flow Visual Editor
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 Spring Web Flow Visual Editor
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Mylar for IDEA (task-focused UI) Please see http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/ for documentation.
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jquery plugin It would be nice if we have a jquery plugin that check dependences of jquery.js pack and do not gives comments like \"Unresolved function $\"
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GlassFish support on par with Netbeans Netbeans provides excellent support for GlassFish. One can do quite a bit of configuration of the server resources, etc. from the IDE itself, in addition to deploy/undeploy, start/stop instances and l... >>
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Multi Monitor Support in a single project General support for multiple monitors (at least 3). For example the ability to undock, float or create a separate tab group of editors where it can be placed on another monitor. It would be nice to ... >>
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C# code editing Provides ability to use IDEA for developing C# code - recognises C# code and lets you navigate around it. Syntax checking. Support for nant files
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JavaCC jj-file editor JavaCC jj-files contain a lot of java code, so some kind of code assist there would be great.
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Improve Ant Build File Editor The current ant build file editor can quite instable when used with larger / more complex build files. The error detection degrades pretty fast and shows lots of false errors. Also the editor has prob... >>
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Full AspectJ support The only times I have to use Eclipse is to do AspectJ programming. Full AspectJ support would be nice, like the AJDT in Eclipse.
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A BPEL designer plugin It would be nice to have a visual web service workflow designer, which could be serialized as a BPEL description
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Matisse Support Provide a plug-in that provides Matisse inside of IDEA.
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JSF support for IceSoft's IceFaces Native JSF support in IntelliJ 6 does not include IceFaces (an OpenSource JSF implementation).
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Groovy support
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 It would be nice to see groovy fully supported... As you are already working on ruby support, groovy should be easier as it as friendly syntax and it compiles to bytecode after all (unlike ruby :) so ... >>
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(Even) Better Maven2 Integration
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 It is one thing to be able to launch maven goals from the IDE, and another to be able to browse and edit them seamlessly. See mevenide for NetBeans for ideas. The ability to visually navigate the de... >>
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Support for jambi It would be nice if the signal/slot mechanism of Jambi (Trolltech\'s new open source product on Qt java bindings) could be supported in the IntelliJ editor.
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Jasper Reports Like the JasperAssistant plugin for Eclipse : http://www.jasperassistant.com/
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Bug trackers integration Add bug/feature number to ckeckin comments and add list of checked in files to bug comments.
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Portlet technology development, coding and integration New kind of project, portlet development for portal products like Liferay or JBoss Portal
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Open up source code for more plugins It would be useful to have the source code for some more of the core plugins to serve as a reference for those who write new plugins. It would help to learn how existing plugins implement certain feat... >>
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JavaDoc wyswyg editor Visual javadoc editor with spell checker.
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AspectJ Syntax Support I'd be nice to have simple syntax highlighting and basic error checking capabilities for AspectJ syntax.
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PHP
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OpenLaszlo Support Add support for OpenLaszlo applications. There used to be a plugin for Eclipse, but it has gone the way of the dodo from what I understand. Support for Rich Internet Applications would be very nice ... >>
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shell script support It would be nice to support sh, bash, and csh scripts in the editor.It would be even nicer if you could easily execute them, possibly by invoking an shell (e.g. cygwin bash on windows, or a remote ssh... >>
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wicket support 1- Maybe use a compiled version of the ie webpage to check the hierarichy 2- create missing html file intention 3- create missing ids in the html file. How and where ? 4- rename/move rafactoring on... >>
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XSLT debugger
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 Advanced XSL transformation debugging
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Cross IDE plugin support Support for the Eclipse plugin API so that eclipse plugin can be used whithin IntelliJ. I guess most of the work would be at the UI conversion level... This could be a plugin but it would be better ... >>
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Code completition/Syntax highlighting for SQL
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 combine "missing left parenthesis" "ORA-00904: invalid column name" with a non trivial sql query. do i need to say more?
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VI Key Mapping
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 VI-like key bindings in the editor for us VI/VIM fans. IdeaVIM, although a great attempt, is too buggy to use and doesn't allow for things like escaped new lines and tabs in a replace string.
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Java Disassembler Add a good disassembler (from byte code to source code).
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Team Foundation Server (TFS) Plugin
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 CVS integration with Microsoft Team Foundation Server
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Intelligent spell checker
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 An intelligent spell checker that (1) Checks within camel case variables (2) Shows spellings errors in the manner of inspection results(3) ignores class members/methods/classes quotes in Javadocs.
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Jetty Support jetty support as built-in Run/Debug configuration similar to the way the current Tomcat support works.
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Scala
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Opensource(!) database tool I wold like to have a tool like DB helper but with more userfriendly interface. I think it should be open source...
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Wizard based framework integration support. For an example, like in Struts Integration - creation of the actions, formbeans and other components should be wizard based.
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Configuration sharing
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 Share configurations (code style, live templates, keyboard shortcuts, quicklists) with others, probably by posting to a central server and having some sort of browsing interface in the plugin. Ideally... >>
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Import/Export files Import/Export files feature like provided by Eclipse.
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Open single file without a project I would like to be able to open a file without having to create a new project.
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Antlr grammar support Support for Antlr grammar files, with navigation from tokens to tokens, with completion of tokens, and a preview pane to try out snippets of code and see how it is parsed by the grammar. Antlr is a pr... >>
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web.xml editor Nice front end for editing web.xml. Features should include clone, servlet-mapping editing, welcome-files, heiraricial understanding of files loaded before it, etc
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Better dependency analysis Dependency analyzer with graphical result representation (something like Compuware Optimal Advisor tool)
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Caucho Resin Support Current resin plugin is closed source, unstable and imcompatible with idea 7
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De-compilation Support Nothing nefarious, but we have a number of open source, deprecated, vendor abandoned (vendor went belly up) third party libraries that we desperately need to update and/or migrate....hard to do withou... >>
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Ivy dependency integration Add full Ivy integration with the project/module dependencies. Ideally, 'Ivy file' would be added to 'IntelliJ IDEA (.iml)' and 'Eclipse (.classpath)' as a dependencies storage format.
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Support for editing JSON and YAML
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Much Better Support for Google Web Toolkit Please add a GUI design tool
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Project Templates The ability to easily define and use project templates similar to a maven archetype or project templates in Netbeans for creating new projects with predefined structure, dependencies and file template... >>
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Eclipse compatible code formatter Add a setting to the code formatter to synchronise with an Eclipse code formatter. This will make it easier to work with both Eclipse and IntelliJ in a team.
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UML-Tool
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bugtraq properties It would be very cool if Subversion plugin for IDEA supported bugtraq properties (e.g. in TSVN tool). So that, integration with bugtracking tools like Jira will be possible..
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Spring Plugin multi module problem Spring plugin in Idea7 is great. I see a leaf aside my declared beans in the current module but IDEA does not show that leaf for beans whose classes are defined in another module that I have already d... >>
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Visual GUI Builder for SWT Librarie Visual Editor for SWT. Editor forces a coding style which will help the VE parse your code better (patterns). Wizard to import java files for the Visual Editor.
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WebWork support WebWork support integration
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turn off / disable / hide uneeded features and plug-ins
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Jar Builder A tool to create and optionally sign jars for one or more modules. Module dependency managed correctly. Configurable destination directories. Ant task generation.
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Rational ClearQuest repository access from inside Idea The plugin should enable working with ClearQuest from inside Idea. All the functionalities should be available in Idea. Also while check in any fix in VCS it should close the issue in ClearQuest autom... >>
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EL syntax validation
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ClearCase plugin for version 6+
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 ClearCase plugin for IDEA version 6 and later
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IntelliJ pkug-in documentation It seems to me that the biggest payoff for the IntelliJ development team's time would be greater documentation and built-in support for building plug-ins for IntelliJ. I am looking for documentation ... >>
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Stripes Integration Simple yet effective addition: Autocompletion and Inspection within JSP pages of Stripes Action beans, event methods etc.
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Version Control Comment Templates I would love to see a way to have custom templates for version control comments. We often like to see what bug was being worked on as well as which files were checked in at the same time.
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SmartIntroduce for Ruby/Groovy/JavaScript The SmartIntroduce plugin is invaluable for every-day Java code manipulation. Now that the Jetbrains-supported "other languages" are getting refactoring support one-by-one, I realize how much I\'m ... >>
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JavaHelp authoring tool Support for JavaHelp system. http://java.sun.com/products/javahelp/
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GroupLayout supported UI designer A GUI designer which support GroupLayout , such as NetBeans v5.5 / 6.0.
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XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0 support XPathView / XsltSupport is a pleasure to use. However, recently we\'ve started to use the new Saxon release to benefit from XSTL 2.0 / XPath 2.0. Xpath 2.0 / Xslt 2.0 is a rare example of a W3C ... >>
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iBATIS / Abator built in support I\'d like a built-in plugin that integrates both iBATIS-related editing and Abator xml,pojo generation based of DB tables.
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Darcs Integration
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TypoChecker Correct variable and keyword typing or spelling errors, by running a 'nearest match' on errors found as you type. As an example, 'tiels = null;' is typed in. The mistyped 'tiels' causes a syntax error... >>
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Better Ant Integration Give possibility to specify properties files instead of property keys in ant configuration. Also add a way to simply specify common command line Ant arguments (such as -Dbasedir=...)
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close unused modules (like eclipse does with projects) Close unused modules (like eclipse does with projects) in big projects in order to increase performance (at startup and runtime)
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Professional tapestry plugin support
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 Struts, JSF high level support already exists. And Tapestry? I tried 3dParty plugins. But it's not very stable and not enough functional. I don't mean WYSIWYG, just good level syntax validation.
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WYSIWYG for WSDL Would like to have a WSDL builder instead of going into the code. Much like the Dependencies tab on a Spring file, only be able to manipulate it from there. I\'ve seen a couple of nice ones elsewher... >>
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Improved integration with Emma Code Coverage Currently there's a minimal integration with Emma Code coverage showing only percentages in the package view and a coloring in the gutter of the editor. This could be improved by providing detailed fe... >>
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Real-time collaborative editing like subethaedit on OS X I’d love to be able to co-edit a class or file in real-time. Imagine being able to flesh out a method while your colleague is already working on the java docs, tidying up behind you or work... >>
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Time Tracker Plugin for measuring time spent working on projects with graphical output and/or export to some common formats. Such time tracker can monitor the activity on per-class or per-file basis. Also some tim... >>
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equals and hashCode check Equals and hashCode often never get updated when a class grows. So when a new field is added the equals and hashCode become invalid. Perhaps this is intended, perhaps not! Why not add a check to see ... >>
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Distraction Free Editing
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OS X "Reveal in Finder" Just like we have "Open in Browser" in the right-click menu, it would be nice to have "Reveal in Finder" which opens the folder and selects the file --- just like iTunes does. A even better plugin ... >>
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JDO 2.0 facet Create a JDO facet. Can be bootstrapped by forking the existing JPA facet in 7.0M1 and modifying to support the JDO 2.0 specifications for logical and OR mapping metadata.
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GUI Builder for GWT.
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BitKeeper support At the least, IDEA should support file history maintained by BitKeeper. Full support would be nice but history would be fantastic.
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Telnet and SSH console toolwindow - putty like would be nice to have something like putty integrated within idea.
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EJB3 Annotations/Deployment Descriptor Conversion Analyzes annotated POJOs to create xml deployment descriptor and deletes EJB3 annotations from POJOs and vice-versa. (It's easier to code with annotations, but XML is safer if a POJO without annotati... >>
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Scriptable debugging Allow the creation of debugging scripts, which would be used to drive the debugger. JavaScript is probably adequate as a language base (and already well supported by IDEA). Scriptable actions would ... >>
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Smart Packages On large projects there could be problem with code navigation. Favourites are fine, but require some user management etc. I would recommend to inroduce smart packages that would filter classes/files b... >>
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Templates for generated methods including javadoc When generating getters/setters, constructors, etc adding the ability to auto generate the javadocs and perhaps allow customization with a template
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Passivate Modules \"unload\" a module without it disappearing from the module/project structure. Sometimes my project gets too big and I need to manage multiple projects which gets awkward. I would want to \"rel... >>
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Make IDEA GUI designer work for Google Web API too It would take a little research to make sure it would work, but I think it would. You store the UI layout in an xml file, that you then parse at runtime to create Swing objects, right? Why couldn'... >>
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Command line A little command line (with history) that can do anything you can do with the mouse or a keyboard shortcut. Would have command completion using ctrl-space. Example: "introduce variable --replace-all '... >>
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Collaborative Project definition Allow project definition sharing without having to commit .ipr and .iws files on versionning systems. That probably means a better separation between .ipr and .iws.
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Optimize taglibs intention An inspection/intention that detects and removes unused <%@ taglib ... %> declarations in JSP files.
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Collaborative Todo list Add teamwork capabilities to Todo lists. At this time, there is no solution except creating a fake file with a lot of //TODO, then cvs\'ing it.
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Documentation tool window A tool window for JavaDoc. Searchable and navigatable. Can show the JavaDoc for the currently-selected class (or the class of the currently-selected variable). Contains JavaDoc generated from all the ... >>
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Auto code completion to slow for typing speed Since moste of the users of intelliJ are coders, we are all fast typers. But the intellij code completion has some problems with fast typers. The problem is that when you put the dot after an objec... >>
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Generic language support like Netbeans Schliemann Adding basic support (highlighting, basic code completion...) for new languages through OpenAPI is difficult to implement. Netbeans started a new project called as Project Schliemann that makes adding... >>
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snippets support like Textmate
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 Snippet is one of the TextMate's feature. When press a Tab key after a certain abbr word , e.g. 'mct', then the full code - 'create table ,<{}> end' will be added to the editing file. It is fast to co... >>
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Field validation The GUI builder already has a handy option for autogenerating code for binding textfields to Java bean properties. Adding options for simple field validation (must be a number, must not be empty etc.)... >>
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Command Line Compilation being able to build modules/ projectss from the command line would be enormously useful (even if what it did was construct the ant build.xml and call ant...)
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generate equals / hashcode The built-in implementation of equals and hashCode methods is not configurable. The generated equals method produces code that violates Liskov substitution principal (by not using instanceof to check... >>
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Aspect to Code/Code to Aspect Refactoring A classic debate over AOP often involves the question: "what if a 'magic' IDE could make visible, rather than invisible, pointcuts? Would you like them then?" More simply, what if IDEA can convert ... >>
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Language macro support Support something like Java Syntactic Extender (http://jse.sourceforge.net/) to add basic macro support to the editor. This would allow users to play with some of the proposed Java 7 features like clo... >>
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Javadoc convert to reference etc. Add an intention that, at seeing a word 'SomeClass.foo()' in javadoc, offers to convert it to {@link com.acme.SomeClass#foo} and to add {@see com.acme.SomeClass#foo}, etc.
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prolog support A full support for the language prolog would be really nice. The interpreter for debugging should be tuprolog.
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Smarter class/package completion preferences
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Quicksilver-like interface inside IDEA Quicksilver-like interface inside IDEA Mac-Users know what I'm talking about (http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/) I propose a quicksilver-like interface inside IDEA. If you don't know Quicksilve... >>
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Autocompletion in Ruby plugin
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Web services support for Websphere Currently there exists a plugin to generate Web services but it does not support WebSphere App server.
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Java2D design It would be cool to have a plugin that can add graphics effects to a shape or something like this.The reason is that it is very boring to start application each time you want to preview how your shape... >>
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Web service plugin for WASP Plugin to deploy, create wsdl functions over Systinet WASP servers
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XML Custom Language Plugin Template/Example I would like a plugin template and/or example that would be used to develop specific custom XML languages. This would include a set of classes that could be extended to define a specific custom XML l... >>
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PVCS Support I would love to make use of the new VCS features like shelve changes but my company is stuck with PVCS which is inexplicably not supported by any plugins.
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Run Configuration Management Add the Ability to organize your Run/Debug configurations in a nested manner and also be able to share variables relevant to a particular grouping of configurations
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Support for JUnit Factory JUnit Factory (www.junitfactory.com) is a free web-based JUnit test generation service. Right now it only has an Eclipse client. We\'d love to see it support IntelliJ.
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show chages while commenting CVS commit
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 user should be able to see easily see changes that (s)he is about to commit to CVS and about which (s)he is supposed to write comments.
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Class browser Columnar class browser. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_browser#Columnar_Browsers
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Copy fields between two objects A plugin or code template that allows you to highlight two objects and it automatically writes code to set the varible of one object using those from the other object. Similar to apache PropertyUtils... >>
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Sounds Request sounds for certain events that occur in the IDE. Stuff like compilation complete, compilation complete with error, compilation complete with warnings, exception occurred, etc. JBuilder has a... >>
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Save search results It would be really useful to be able to save search results - including fold/unfold and exclude/include state - between project sessions, so that you can close down IntelliJ and continue working throu... >>
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Adapter to allow ANTLR 3 lexers and parsers in language plugins While you can use ANTLR parsers in language plugins, it isn\'t trivial to do, and I haven\'t got it to work completely. Many languages use ANTLR grammars, and first class support in language plugins w... >>
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improved sorting of objects in views IntelliJ has a number of list-type views that are very useful. These are the Project Structure and various Hierarchy views (3 of them). What I am always wanting is the ability to sort the items i... >>
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Performace Time Tracking I wish that I could simply add another level of debugging and performance profiling: It would be nice if I could add checkpoints in the code (in a similar way to breakpoints) that will measure the tim... >>
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OpenInTextMode A way to open a file in text mode instead of the file's normal mode. Would be handy for situations like having really large XML files where the editor overhead gets in the way of browsing the file. ... >>
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Spring Batch support Add support for smart editing of Spring-Batch XML configuration files. Visualize Jobs & editing in graph.
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XAML support in IntelliJ I'd like to see a XAML editor (both XML and Design views) I've been using Blend for that, but I'd rather have it integrated into IntelliJ than having to switch IDEs..
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Netbeans RCP development Please add support for easy creation of project/launch configuration with correctly managed dependencies for netbeans rcp based applications.
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Web UI refactoring Ability to select part of JSF page and extract it as JSF component would be great. You can add here ability to select part of JSP page with some java variables used and extract it as .tag file with at... >>
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Classpath analyzer when global libraries are used in a project sometimes they include different and potentially conflicting versions of the same jar and order of use of those jars different depending on the way applicat... >>
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Schmant A plugin to integrate the build tool Schmant (www.schmant.org) in IntelliJ. It also should support (code completion, color coding etc etc) writing schmant build scripts (at least in javascript...)
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Find usages in Javadoc Would be nice to be able to find class/method/... references in javadoc. This is especially useful for seeking documentation saying things like "Warning: method A.foo() may only be used with class B ... >>
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IntelliJ Support for Jython Visula drag-drop editor for Jython.
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BlitzMax language support Support for the BlitzMax game-development language.
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ENOVIA Studio Integration An IntelliJ equivalent of MxEclipse. http://mxeclipse.sourceforge.net/
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Colour Picker takes code like new Color ( 0x#8b4513 ) 1. adds comment /* chocolate4 */ x11 colour or extended set of names. 2. displays a swatch on line to show what colour looks like as part of listing. 3. let... >>
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Synchronize Project tool window content with open document Being able to right click on an open document and highlight the file name in project tool window
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More extended means of defining name pre-/suf-fix It would be nice to be able to specify prefix/suffix in more details. Ex: member: prefix: m_n for int;long;byte m_b for boolean m_f for float;double m_c for ? extends java.lang... >>
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