Intellij IDEA 8 with Seam support

[thejavafreak]

Dear all,

I've just taken a look at the latest release of Intellij IDEA version 8 M1. It has a very great support for seam. You've gotta love the visual editor feature :) I think with this Seam support features available out of the box from IDEA we from the community should support more Seam features to be included in this IDE.

[thejavafreak]

Damn,

The video preview here:
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/training/demos/seam-development.html

Makes developing Seam projects so amusing :))

[damianharvey.damianharvey.gmail.com]

Does anybody have any strong opinions on IntelliJ vs Eclipse?

I've been getting long hangs on Eclipse (more than just GC) and I'm getting a bit sick of it. I just watched the demo that Joshua links to above and it's very impressive. Does IntelliJ suffer from the same bloat as Eclipse? Are there any downsides to it?

Thanks,

Damian.

[mail.micke]

I used to use IntelliJ at my old work place and it was a treat. The software I was working on then was open source and for that you can (at least could) get free licenses.

I found the IntelliJ editor to be really nice. Maven support (via idea:idea , just like eclipse:eclipse) was also good.

I wouldn't kick up a fuss if our current dev environment was moved to IntelliJ, but I'm also as happy staying with Eclipse. Having said this I haven't actually used IntelliJ for 2 years now and it might have gotten even better.

[gus888]

I strongly recommend eclipse, which is becoming a java standard IDE. If you want seam support, you can integrate JBoss tool to eclipse. And I don't think visual edit has much help on Seam.

I used IntelliJ IDEA in my previous employer, and found Intellij was not "intelli". The story was as follows: in my previous employer, we used Intellij and liked it. In one of our new projects, we decided to use JSF and asked them whether they planned to integrate JSF into Intellij, they definitely told us they had no plan to integrate JSF, since they had Fabrique. They told us Fabrique was much better than JSF and recommended us to use Fabrique. Fortunately, we didn't use Fabrique and also gave up Intellij IDEA, since Fabrique had been sentenced to death by IntelliJ. Take care.

[chris.simons]

Sheng,

How long ago was this?  I don't really see how this applies since IDEA has support for JSF and now Seam.  I think the only question is how well will they keep up with future upgrades to JSF, Seam, and so on.

[thejavafreak]

Hi Sheng,

Chris is right, how long ago was this? I've been using IntelliJ since version 7 and never looked back since then. It is just so smart. The autocompletion does not only applies to Java class but also down to the HQL, Spring config, ibatis config. I've been amazed so far of what IntelliJ can do. And with the Seam support it has, makes me love IntelliJ even more because the support is far better than what JBoss tools has got to offer. Sorry, but I'm just being honest.

[damianharvey.damianharvey.gmail.com]

Joshua,

Are their any downsides to IntelliJ? From the brief look at the demos and docs I had this morning it looked solid but you can't really tell to you use it in anger. Is there anything that you miss from Eclipse?

Thanks,

Damian.

[chris.simons]

Joshua,

You say that it supports auto-completion for HQL?  This would be sweet; I had no idea it did this.  Do you know if it has equivalent support for EJB-QL?

Thanks.

[thejavafreak]

Chris Simons wrote on Sep 09, 2008 17:37:


Joshua,

You say that it supports auto-completion for HQL?  This would be sweet; I had no idea it did this.  Do you know if it has equivalent support for EJB-QL?

Thanks.

Hi Chris, it works for EJB-QL as well. What I mean is that IntelliJ knows my classes and I can use autocompletion for my entities inside the EJB-QL as well. What are you expecting? 

[thejavafreak]

Damian Harvey wrote on Sep 09, 2008 17:15:


Joshua,

Are their any downsides to IntelliJ? From the brief look at the demos and docs I had this morning it looked solid but you can't really tell to you use it in anger. Is there anything that you miss from Eclipse?

Damian,

Until recently the only reason I am using Eclipse is because Seam is not yet supported under IntelliJ, but when version 8 goes out I have no other reason to stick with Eclipse. The main problem with Eclipse IMHO is the plugin is not really integrated with the whole thing that I have in Eclipse itself. But with IntelliJ the autocompletion goes down upto Spring config, ibatis config, and Hibernate config. I also like the maven plugin because I can configure it, and download artifacts using on of its button. It's just too good to be true. :P

cheers

[toni]

Hi,

I think Intellij is the ide for java. If they start to support Seam this is good news.

Tim

[gus888]

About three years ago, we used IDEA 4 and 5. After switched to eclipse, I found that eclipse is the choice.

[dxxvi]

Could anybody who used idea 8 and seam give me a tutorial on how to import the project created by seam-gen into idea?

Thanks in advance.

[stefanotravelli]

IDEA 7 has EJB-QL/HQL autocompletion as well.

What seems good in IDEA 8 is the autocompletion for EL in all Seam sensible context.

I currently use IDEA 7 and while there is no official support for Seam, I think that there should be some hidden feature.

For instance, IDEA 7 recognizes as EL variables all components declared with @Name and @Factory annotations and I have autocompletion and ctrl-b (go to source) for such variables in xhtml files.