Friday, 16 October 2009 08:28JetBrains have announced that they are releasing a free Community version of their popular IDE, IntelliJ IDEA.
With the upcoming version 9 if IDEA, two versions of the software will be available - the free Community Edition and the paid for Ultimate Edition.
The community edition will feature:
- Intelligent code editor has all the smarts for understanding Java code; provides refactorings, code inspections and intentions, super-fast navigation and search — all that we have accumulated over the years.
- Integrates with such essential tools as JUnit and TestNG, Ant and Maven, and popular version control systems: CVS, Subversion and git.
- Provides IntelliJ IDEA's famous XML-Java interoperability and comprehensive Groovy language support.
- The Swing UI designer complements the suite of tools for developing Java desktop applications — such as IntelliJ IDEA itself.
The main difference between the free Community Edition and the paid for Ultimate edition is the plugins that are available for each version. The community Edition does not for example include support for many enterprise features such as EJB, JSF and Servlets. A full comparison of the features between the different versions can be found on the IntelliJ web site.
A public preview of the Community Edition can currently be downloaded from JetBrains.
