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The new features seem to mostly revolve around JavaScript development, and promises to even show suggestions when developing AJAX code and libraries. Also, Alex says that if you’re running Web Sphere 5.1 or later, you’d be getting source-level debugging for JSP pages!
And of course it’s free to those already packed with licenses for IDEA 5.0.
These news matter to me more because it marks the end of Irida project (now called 5.1) and the beginning of the Demetra project, already starring in the early access program’s site (go and register now!)
Demetra is the next version of IDEA, marked 6.0, and is supposed to offer a lot in UI design, collaboration support and support for the fresh Java EE 5. JetBrains always surprised for the better, so much that their great IDE is no longer a surprise. Right now however, in my opinion, they have a bit of a fight against Matisse in the UI region – And I can’t wait to see how that gets resolved.
The thing to remember most is that unlike Eclipse or NetBeans, IDEA is not free – They can’t allow themselves to fall behind, and so far I don’t think they have. Their next IDE will show however, if they are going to fall behind in areas like UI design, which they controlled (again, in my opinion) up until recently.
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