IntelliJ IDEA is capable of Deployment and debugging with servers like Tomcat, GlassFish, JBoss, Weblogic, WebSphere, Geronimo, Resin and Jetty. The Ultimate edition comes with Enterprise technologies which support Java EE, Spring, GWT, Struts, Play, Hibernate, Google App Engine, OSGi and others, there is also support for HTML, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, CSS, integration for templating engines with a variety of supported languages, with refactoring capabilities: ActionScript, PHP, Groovy, Scala, Python/Jython, Ruby/JRuby, Clojure, features that are not available in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition. IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is mainly used on Java, XML and Groovy code applications, or doing Swing development, and includes various features such as refactorings and code inspections, coding assistance, debugging, TestNG and JUnit testing frameworks, popular version control systems integration with CVS, Subversion and Git support, and integration with Ant and Maven build tools. It is often simply referred to as “IDEA” and is a premier IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Java, Groovy and other programming languages such as Scala or Clojure. IDEA also known as IntelliJ IDEA is a Java IDE by JetBrains, and is available for download in two forms, one which is a community edition and is based on an Apache 2 License and commercial edition.

Last time I took a look at the Eclipse IDE, in the continuation of a series of articles about integrated development environments (IDE) and what we love and hate about them, this time in the third article in the series we take a look at IntelliJ IDEA.

What we love and hate about Java IDEs – IntelliJ IDEA He also likes retro technology, classic cars and in his spare time enjoys travelling. Alex Marshall Alex Marshall is a marketeer, web developer and designer.

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