IntelliJ is one of the most powerful and popular integrated development environments (IDE) for Java. It is developed and maintained by JetBrains and is available as the final version for the community. This feature-rich IDE provides fast development and helps to improve code quality.
What is IDE and its benefits?
IDE stands for integrated development environment. It is a combination of several tools that make the software development process easier, more reliable and less error-prone. It has the following advantages over a text editor -.
Integration with useful tools like compiler, debugger, version control system, build tools, various platforms, application profilers and so on.
Supports code navigation, code autocompletion, refactoring and code generation functions, which speeds up the development process.
Supports unit testing, integration testing and code coverage with plugins.
Provides a rich set of plugins to further extend the functionality of the IDE .
Integrates with useful tools such as compiler, debugger, version control system, build tools, various platforms, application profilers and so on.
Supports code navigation, code autocompletion, refactoring and code generation functions, which speeds up the development process.
Supports unit testing, integration testing and code coverage with plugins.
Provides a rich set of plugins to further extend the functionality of the IDE .
Integrates with useful tools such as compiler, debugger, version control system, build tools, various platforms, application profilers and so on.
Supports code navigation, code autocompletion, refactoring and code generation functions, which speeds up the development process.
Supports unit testing, integration testing and code coverage with plugins.
Provides a rich set of plugins to further extend the functionality of the IDE .
IntelliJ Features
IntelliJ IDEA has some of the most effective Java code completion features. Its prediction algorithm can accurately guess what the coder is trying to type and completes it for him even if he does not know the exact name of a particular class, member or any other resource.
Deep Understanding
IntelliJ IDEA really understands and deeply comprehends your code as well as the coder context, which is what makes it so unique among other Java IDEs.
Intelligent Code Completion – It supports contextual code completion. It gives a list of the most significant characters applicable in the current context.
Chained Code Completion – This is an advanced code completion feature that lists the relevant symbols available via get methods or methods in the current context.
Static member completion – It allows you to use static methods or constants and automatically adds necessary import statements to avoid compilation error.
Duplicate Detection – It detects duplicate code fragments on the fly and gives a notification / suggestion about it to the user.
Inspections and quick fixes. Whenever IntelliJ detects that you are about to make a mistake, a little lightbulb notification appears on one line. Clicking on it will give you a list of suggestions.
