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Intellij 8's support for Seam is looking nice.

I would love to hear what (if any) things you guys are missing in JBoss Tools.

We already have(JBT 2.1):
HQL/EJB-QL code completion in query AND java editor
EL code completion
Go to declaration/Source (F3)
Find references (Ctrl+Shift+G or Ctrl+1)

We are working on(JBT 3.0):
Seam pages.xml editor
EL refactoring.

Let us know :)

I strongly recommend eclipse, which is becoming a java standard IDE.

Huh? If anything then in recent times Eclipse is loosing market share to NetBeans and IDEA.

Also everybody else is doing it the same way is a rather weak argument.

IDEA has much better integration of its various features - as opposed to often conflicting plugins of varying quality. If you limit yourself to the technology stack supported by Red Hat Developer Studio you might be lucky (but don't expect support for IBM WebSphere for example).

In general Eclipse has much less usable features, everything is one or two steps further away (if you managed to figure out the Eclipsish-way of doing it).
It's hard to over-emphasize this point, IDEA simply keeps you in flow without getting in the way. JetBrains has always put tremendous focus on keeping everything usable and streamlined.

Also almost every single feature is simply implemented in a better, more complete way (e.g. javascript support).

That said, IDEA has its share of bugs, plus the implementation of some non-code-centric (like diagramming) or seldom used features is lacking a little.

Oh, did I mention their great support? Honestly, it is much nicer to complain about an important bug or missing feature and have it delivered a couple of weeks (or days) later, than arguing in Eclipse mailing lists or bug tracker.

A word of warning: If you have managed to get used to the Eclipse way of doing something, then don't expect IDEA (or in fact any other IDE) to behave the same.
For example a typical question of IDEA newbies is How do I import your sources. Ouch - in IDEA there simply isn't any need at all to import anything. Simply configure your source root to where they are on your disk.

This is an interesting blog post for anyone considering switching from Eclipse to IntelliJ.

I've imported my project and my initial thoughts are that it's very different (duh). It checks a lot more than Eclipse (eg. raises a compile error if one of my query parameters is not used in the query). It uses just as much memory as Eclipse (if not more). The interface is snappier and more responsive (but uglier).

Cheers,

Damian.

Hello,

It seems that Intellij IDEA's support for Seam is amazing. Most of things are working on my side, but I'm encountering problems with the hot-redeployment of action components. I don't know how to configure my project to compile and copy classes from src/hot into WEB-INF/dev. Does anyone can help me to solve this ?

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Hello,

I developed my Seam project with Netbeans because of the native maven support. But unfortunately, Netbeans/Maven combo only allows to deploy EAR-Archives. So there is no support for incremental deployment - hot redeployment. In addition, the facelets editor does not support javascript editing.

I downloaded IDEA 8.0 and imported the project - which is a plain maven project. This was no problem since IDEA does support maven too. I was impressed about how IDEA supports the development like:

1. JPA support; mappings are synchronised with the database schema


2. SEAM support: every expression language bit gets validated

So I can really recommend IDEA - give it a try!
The only thing which does not work for me is the deployment - wether to JBoss nor to Glassfish. Every JAR is a folder in the appserver repository and inside the folder is the JAR itself. So there is no change for the appserver to run the application.

Regards,

Cyrill

The only thing which does not work for me is the deployment - wether to JBoss nor to Glassfish. Every JAR is a folder in the appserver repository and inside the folder is the JAR itself. So there is no change for the appserver to run the application.

I don't know much about Glassfish (wish I had some more time). To tell Idea to deploy to JBoss or Glassfish (or any application server that Idea supports), you can ask Idea to create a .ear/.war file. If you choose to create a directory (not a single .ear/.war file) for your project, then to make it deployable in jboss, your directory must have a name of something.ear/something.war and inside something.ear, your ejb module will be a single .jar file or a someotherthing.jar directory.

You've gotta love the visual editor feature

Does it allow to see the preview of xhtml files right in the IDE tab, like Eclipse does?