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ZK framework GUI designer It would be nice if there's a ZK GUI designer in IDEA
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Freemarker Template Editor
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 An editor for freemarker templates.
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Flex2 support
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 To be able to develop Flex2 applications a la Flex2 Builder but with the rock solid, ultra usable, idea IDE.
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JBoss Seam support
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 Support for developing JBoss Seam applications i.e. project setup, include libraries, code templates and generators (like seamgen)
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Git VCS
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 VCS support for Git
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WYSIWYG for JSP,JSF,HTML,XHTML etc... WYSIWYG for JSP,JSF,HTML,XHTML etc...
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OSGi development support It would be really nice to have an OSGi development support within IDEA. Features needed: * Managing OSGi manifest file via bnd. * Exposed classpath per module obey Import-Package declared in man... >>
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PERFORMANCE In a nutshell, we'd like to see IDEA optimized as much as humanly possible for large projects. Our projects has 5,000+ files and 7,000+ java classes (by no means huge, but still large). We notice qu... >>
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Velocity syntax support
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 It would be nice if we could have a proper file association to .vm files which would recognize velocity macros and highlight them properly instead of showing as syntax errors in the editor.
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Mercurial vcs support Hi, it would be nice to see suport for non-legacy vcses. Among different distributed VCSes mercurial has advantage of being really portable and fast then it comes to dealing with lots of files...
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Scala language plugin
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 Scala is to Java what Struts (and later frameworks) is to servlet development: a large step for mankind. I\'d like to see the Scala plugin (currently in alpha or something) reach a releasable version.... >>
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Maven 2 Add support for bidirectional dependencies between idea and Maven 2. To be able create projects from pom's (already exist as maven plugin) but also to be able to update the pom from idea and run goals
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Struts2 Support
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FindBugs plugins It would be great to have FindBugs (http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/) integration in IDEA. (Perhaps \"bugs\" number showing next to class/package like in code coverage?)
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PHP language support PHP language support is also a good feature, having worked both PHP and Java and switching from one IDE to another is painfully tiresome. Why not integrate this into intellij ? PLEASE
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Spring Web Flow Visual Editor Spring Web Flow Visual Editor
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JavaFX support
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GlassFish support on par with Netbeans Netbeans provides excellent support for GlassFish. One can do quite a bit of configuration of the server resources, etc. from the IDE itself, in addition to deploy/undeploy, start/stop instances and l... >>
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Mylar for IDEA (task-focused UI) Please see http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/ for documentation.
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Java FX Plugin for Java FX/F3. There are NetBeans and Eclipse plugins for this already, it would be nice to catch-up.
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Improve Ant Build File Editor The current ant build file editor can quite instable when used with larger / more complex build files. The error detection degrades pretty fast and shows lots of false errors. Also the editor has prob... >>
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Matisse Support Provide a plug-in that provides Matisse inside of IDEA.
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Groovy support
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 It would be nice to see groovy fully supported... As you are already working on ruby support, groovy should be easier as it as friendly syntax and it compiles to bytecode after all (unlike ruby :) so ... >>
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Full AspectJ support The only times I have to use Eclipse is to do AspectJ programming. Full AspectJ support would be nice, like the AJDT in Eclipse.
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Multi Monitor Support in a single project General support for multiple monitors (at least 3). For example the ability to undock, float or create a separate tab group of editors where it can be placed on another monitor. It would be nice to ... >>
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(Even) Better Maven2 Integration It is one thing to be able to launch maven goals from the IDE, and another to be able to browse and edit them seamlessly. See mevenide for NetBeans for ideas. The ability to visually navigate the de... >>
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JavaCC jj-file editor JavaCC jj-files contain a lot of java code, so some kind of code assist there would be great.
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Erlang language support Interest in this cute functional language from the 80s is quickly growing. A basic custom language implementation in IDEA would be nice. One good attribute is that the language can be considered st... >>
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JSF support for IceSoft's IceFaces Native JSF support in IntelliJ 6 does not include IceFaces (an OpenSource JSF implementation).
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Bug trackers integration Add bug/feature number to ckeckin comments and add list of checked in files to bug comments.
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A BPEL designer plugin It would be nice to have a visual web service workflow designer, which could be serialized as a BPEL description
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Open up source code for more plugins It would be useful to have the source code for some more of the core plugins to serve as a reference for those who write new plugins. It would help to learn how existing plugins implement certain feat... >>
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JavaDoc wyswyg editor Visual javadoc editor with spell checker.
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Support for jambi It would be nice if the signal/slot mechanism of Jambi (Trolltech\'s new open source product on Qt java bindings) could be supported in the IntelliJ editor.
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XSLT debugger
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 Advanced XSL transformation debugging
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Code completition/Syntax highlighting for SQL
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 combine "missing left parenthesis" "ORA-00904: invalid column name" with a non trivial sql query. do i need to say more?
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OpenLaszlo Support Add support for OpenLaszlo applications. There used to be a plugin for Eclipse, but it has gone the way of the dodo from what I understand. Support for Rich Internet Applications would be very nice ... >>
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Java Disassembler Add a good disassembler (from byte code to source code).