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IntelliJ IDEA

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IntelliJ IDEA is a free / commercial Java IDE by JetBrains. Its design is centered on programmer productivity. A number of its features are intended to accelerate development and allow programmers to concentrate on functionality while IntelliJ IDEA handles routine coding tasks. IDEA supports various programming languages with advanced code inspection and refactoring features, such as Groovy, Javascript, Actionscript, Ruby/JRuby, PHP and others. The Community Edition is Open Source but misses most fea... More info »



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conorwsullivan-image

Moving from Eclipse (STS) to IntelliJ, was for me moving from being blocked 2 days a week to being continuously productive. What takes hours to fix in Eclipse simply works in IntelliJ. Your company owes it to you to buy a license. Could not recommend more.

 
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mistaecko-image

The commercial edition (Ultimate) is definitely worth its money. There is a special license for individual developers at about half-price, and an Academic license for students and teachers at a fraction of the costs. Free licenses are available when used for teaching/training and for Open Source projects.

In any case the increased productivity easily justifies the license costs IMHO.

 
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mklhmnn-image

I'm using IDEA since nearly 10 years. It was the first Java IDE which *understood* Java. Even the free Community Edition is, regarding its Java support, far ahead of Eclipse and Netbeans. Hence we stick with IDEA.

 
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mistaecko-image

Comparison of Ultimate Edition (paid) vs. Community Edition (Open Source): http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html

 
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mistaecko-image

IDEA was a ground-breaking Java IDE during its first years and blew away its competition. Its advanced code inspection and refactoring tools were umatched. It always has been demanding on resources but delivers great productivity in return. While Eclipse has caught up feature-wise and might have advantages due to its plugin based architecture and large community, IDEA is still my number one choice by far!
The community edition is quite limited and misses nearly all important components for server-side development.

 
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rfi99-image

Very good IDE that is very complete for Java. Sometimes it feels like IntelliJ is a "role-model" for Eclipse.

 
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