Andrew Powell

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Andrew Powell

IDE Bliss, or IntelliJ Kicks Ass

June 12, 2008 · 5 Comments

I know many of you in the Adobe world are big time Eclipse users. Flex Builder is in Eclipse, CFEclipse is there too. I must say however, that for doing just straight-up Java development, IntelliJ IDEA blows Eclipse out of the water. It is what an IDE should be. Unobtrusive when it needs to be, yet helpful when it should be. If you're doing any Java development at all, it's worth dropping a little extra coin to get a hold of what I think is one of the best IDEs around.

By the way... they currently have rudimentary Flex support, with more coming down the pipe for IntelliJ 8.0

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IDE Bliss, or IntelliJ Kicks Ass

Tags: Java · General · Spring · Hibernate

5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Sammy Larbi // Jun 12, 2008 at 5:09 PM

    I'd have to agree. The Ruby / Ruby on Rails plugin is useful too. <br /><br />If there were a CF plugin for it that followed its lead, I'd certainly use it too.

  • 2 Adam Haskell // Jun 12, 2008 at 7:27 PM

    With proper configuration Eclipse gets fairly close, and if you look at NetBeans' roadmap it is somewhat impressive (we'll see if thy hit that). But without a doubt IntelliJ is a delight to work with and generally worth the price as an individual. <br /><br />@Sammy from what I understand, talking with some folks at work that have looked at the plugin building for IntelliJ a far bit more than I, IntelliJ's Dynamic Language support is much much better than eclipse's. There is certainly the possibility to build a kick ass plugin for CFML. What'd rock is if Adobe managed a deal with JetBrains and licensed IntelliJ for the CFML IDE and sold it for $&lt;500 (obviously no floating licenses). I know a pipe dream... but a guy can dream once and a while right?

  • 3 Kenton Gray // Jul 15, 2008 at 6:29 PM

    Wow, I thought I was the only one who dreamt of a CF plugin for intellij...

  • 4 Kenton // Jul 27, 2008 at 4:34 PM

    I put in a ticket, if anyone else dreams of this please vote for it!<br /><br />http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEA-18895

  • 5 Kenton // Sep 28, 2008 at 2:53 PM

    I thought I should mention it looks like this is going to become a reality! The JetBrains team has started development on the coldfusion plugin. No idea when it would occur but I am excited

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