IntelliJ IDEA
Developer(s)JetBrains
Stable release
15.0.3 / January 19, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-01-19)
Written inJava
Operating systemWindows, OS X, Linux
TypeJava IDE
License
Websitewww.jetbrains.com/idea/

IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment (IDE) for developing computer software. It is developed by JetBrains (formerly known as IntelliJ), and is available as an Apache 2 Licensed community edition,[1] and in a proprietary commercial edition.

History

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The first version of IntelliJ IDEA was released in January 2001, and was one of the first available Java IDEs with advanced code navigation and code refactoring capabilities integrated.[2][3]

In a 2010 Infoworld report, IntelliJ received the highest test center score out of the four top Java programming tools: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans and JDeveloper.[4]

In December 2014, Google announced version 1.0 of Android Studio, an open source IDE for Android apps, based on the open source community edition of IntelliJ IDEA.[5] Other development environments based on IntelliJ's framework include AppCode, CLion, PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, WebStorm, and MPS.[6]

System requirements

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Windows OS X Linux
OS Version Microsoft Windows 10/8/7/Vista/2003/XP (incl.64-bit) Mac OS X 10.5 or higher, up to 10.9 (Mavericks)

GNOME or KDE desktop

RAM 1 GB RAM minimum, 2 GB RAM recommended
Disk space 300 MB hard disk space + at least 1 GB for caches
JDK Version JDK 1.6 or higher
Screen resolution 1024x768 minimum screen resolution

Features

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Version 12.1 includes support for Java 8, UI designer for Android development, Play 2.0 and Scala.

Supported languages[7]

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IntelliJ IDEA has two editions; Community Edition (Free) and Ultimate Edition (Paid). Both can be used for commercial development.[8]

Languages IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition
Java Yes Yes
Clojure (via separate plugin) Yes Yes
Dart (via separate plugin) Yes Yes
Erlang (via separate plugin) Yes Yes
Go (via separate plugin) Yes Yes
Groovy Yes Yes
Haxe (via separate plugin) Yes Yes
Scala (via separate plugin) Yes Yes
XML/XSL Yes Yes
Kotlin Yes Yes
JavaFX Yes Yes
ActionScript/MXML No Yes
CoffeeScript No Yes
Haskell (via separate plugin) No Yes
HTML/XHTML/CSS No Yes
JavaScript No Yes
Jelastic (via separate plugin) No Yes
Lua (via separate plugin) No Yes
Node.js (via separate plugin) No Yes
PHP (via separate plugin) No Yes
Python No Yes
Ruby/JRuby No Yes
SQL No Yes
TypeScript (via separate plugin) No Yes

Technologies and frameworks

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Ultimate Edition supports the following:[7]

Ultimate Edition also supports the application servers Geronimo, GlassFish, JBoss, Jetty, Tomcat, Weblogic, and WebSphere.[7]

Software versioning and revision control

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The two editions also differ in their support[7] for software versioning and revision control systems.

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition
Ant Yes Yes
CVS Yes Yes
Git Yes Yes
GitHub Yes Yes
JUnit Yes Yes
Maven Yes Yes
Mercurial Yes Yes
SBT[9] Yes Yes
Subversion Yes Yes
TestNG Yes Yes
Team Foundation Server No Yes
ClearCase No Yes
Perforce No Yes
Visual SourceSafe No Yes

Free plugins also exist for the Atlassian IntelliJ Connector integrating JIRA,[10] Bamboo, Crucible and FishEye.

Plugin Ecosystem

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IntelliJ supports plugins through which one can add additional functionality to the IDE. One can download and install plugins either from IntelliJ's plugin repository website or through IDE's inbuilt plugin search and install feature. Currently IntelliJ IDEA Community edition has 1495[11] plugins available, where as the Ultimate edition has 1626[12] plugins available.

See also

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Bibliography

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  • Saunders, Stephen; Fields, Duane K.; Belayev, Eugene (March 1, 2006), IntelliJ IDEA in Action (1st ed.), Manning, p. 450, ISBN 1-932394-44-3
  • Davydov, S.; Efimov, A. (May 2005), IntelliJ IDEA. Professional'noe programmirovanie na Java (V podlinnike) (1st ed.), BHV, p. 800, ISBN 5-94157-607-2

References

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