[PJUG Javamail] Free version of IntelliJ...

[Michael Phoenix]

Netbeans has a lot of those great code-fixing features as well. Where IDEA
is really superior is in its ability to find strings, objects, and methods
anywhere in the code.

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Douglas Bullard <DBULLARD at nurflugel.com>wrote:

> I watch our developers at work trying to do stuff with Eclipse that’s easy
> in IDEA… since our switch, our code quality has actually suffered, as
> Eclipse doesn’t have nearly the code fixing features of IDEA.  Yes,
> CheckStyle can tell you you’re doing something bad - but Intellij will
> suggest fixes for you, and then make it happen with a keystroke.  Most folks
> don’t bother with it when they see the CheckStyle errors, they just leave
> the bad code in and let someone else (usually me or the tech lead) fix it.
>
> The really funny thing is that when we used IDEA (and an old version at
> that), contractors would come in who had never used anything other than
> Eclipse - they hated switching.  After using IDEA for a while, they loved
> it.  When we switched to Eclipse, a lot of them said that even the old
> version of IDEA was better then the RedHat version of Eclipse.  And, the
> ones that were using IDEA 8 (quite a few bought licenses) said the Seam and
> Spring support was far superior.
>
> Of course, Eclipse was “free”, so guess how that went…
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> Doug
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