Re: [Springframework-developer] OT: IDEA 4.5

[Rob H. <ro...@ca...>]

Patrick,

Thanks for that useful summary - I am planning to start work on a simple 
hobby project using IDEA so I can build up an understanding of how it 
works and then perhaps move some other projects to it as well.

Rob

Patrick Burleson wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:41:11 +0000, Rob Harrop <ro...@ca...> wrote:
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>>How do you find IDEA, I have heard some really good things about it and
>>I am keen to get to grips with it to see if makes my life a bit easier.
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>>Rob
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>Rob,
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>I find IDEA to be the one product that has single handily changed the
>way I think about and write code. I've tried every other IDE for Java
>and I just keep having to come back to IDEA.
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>Sure, the feature sets between it and Eclipse are pretty similar. But
>to me, IDEA seems so much more "tighter" than Eclipse or others.
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>The biggest feature I use is the code navigation and keyboard
>shortcuts. I rarely, if ever, have to reach for my mouse.
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>The other things I love are the intentions and inspections. The
>ability to see where a variable is used (filterable by read access and
>write access), where a method is used, where a class is used (even
>searching through comments).
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>And the refactorings of course are beyond useful. 
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>As for me, I've setup Spring as a single Java Module, but I also don't
>ever look at the sample web apps. If I did, I would set them up as
>seperate modules, much like Jergen mentions in his setup.
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>I highly recommend you check out the forums for the EAP (Early Access
>Program) at http://www.intellij.net/ . The lastest EAP has started,
>which the buildup for 5.0 . The features for it are going to be good.
>I'm most looking forward to Subversion and Perforce integration (
>currently available as plugins, but in 5.0 will be provided by
>JetBrains as a part of the IDEA release) .
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>I also highly recommend checking out the menu option
>Help->Productivity Guide. It will show you all the cool features of
>IDEA you aren't using and tells you how often you are using the ones
>you do use.
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>Enjoy,
>Patrick
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