IntelliJIDEA

www.intellij.com

Hmm, does it have proper catch-up-and-release style version control yet? MpC

Its an IDE (not a VCS), but it can talk to a VCS (eg CVS). VAJ is an IDE that happens to include a VCS

Most features of an IDE could be considered optional, I would say a good integrated VCS is one of the more useful ones - particularly if you are working in a team.

Integration is good, but I prefer tools that allow me to decide what to integrate them with. Otherwise you run the risk of having some sort of 'Studio' product that does two things ok, fifty poorly, and none brilliantly. The other aspect is purely selfish - if I am used to working with a particular VCS, I want to be able to integrate it into my chosen IDE, not have to migrate all my code to a different VCS. --DarrenH

We've started using IntelliJIDEA for coding and Eclipse for code management. Point IntelliJIDEA at Eclipse's workspace. --SteveF

Not a bad idea Steve. Perhaps someone can create an IntelliJ? editor plugin for eclipse :-)

That would be perfect, I would pay real money for one of those... --SteveF

I'm starting to warm to this, though not enough to shell out for a copy. It works very well with ant and the refactorying stuff is actually useful. Although I think it still works in the wrong way in some cases.

e.g. if I type name = "Jeff";

I want to be able to it to know about name from then on and allowing me to extract a definition from the assignment. currently it prefers you to declare you variable then use it. How can I declare it until I've used it and found out what type it should be?. This is where the autocomplete in vim works well as it's much stupider and picks up names from all over the place. -- JeffMartin