On 6 May 2014 at 16:11:59, Jeremie BOUSQUET ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
2014-05-06 12:40 GMT+02:00 Denis Gervalle :
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 12:24 PM, [email protected] > > >wrote:
Hi,
On 6 May 2014 at 12:22:06, [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote:
Hi devs,
Our intellij IDEA ultimate license has expired. Jetbrains is ok to renew it but they wish that the xwiki project gives something more in return: they mentioned some blog post for example.
So first, who’s using IDEA and would like to continue using the Ultimate version (vs the community one which is free)? I’m using IDEA Ultimate and I’m very happy with it. The community edition looks good but is missing some features like HMTL/CSS/JS support. I don’t know if I would miss those features though if I were to use the community edition. I guess I should try it… Will do now!
I am using it as well, and I am really happy with it. It is far more easy to setup than Eclipse, and it provides very nice features. The auto-completions and other smart inspections of code are really nice (without any performance issues), the refactoring feature is great, but from the advantage of the Ultimate edition, apart from what you already mention, I will miss the Coverage feature to improve my unit tests. I do not really envision the idea of going back to Eclipse or Netbeans, I still remember the nightmare it was.
Hi Denis, Just a side note, to be honest, I don't know which version of Eclipse you tried, but I must say they evolved correctly. With recent versions (indigo), it is much easier to import your maven project into eclipse projects and the sync works quite well.
Actually I just gave Eclipse Kepler (SR2) a try today and the maven integration is a nightmare… When you import your pom.xml as a project (I imported only commons pom.xml) you get lots of errors about unknown lifecycle mappings (I remember remote resources plugin, osgi bundle plugin, enforcer plugin) and you don’t know what to do. Then after all poms were imported the project was full of redcrosses (ie errors). I looked quickly and couldn’t find the problem so I stopped and remove Eclipse Kepler from my machine. I know if can be fixed and works fine thereafter (the proof is that several xwiki committers are using it every day! :)). But this is far from easy when you install it the first time and if you don’t take the time to google or ask others how they’ve done it! Thanks -Vincent PS: I don’t want to start an IDE war here, just reporting my experience of today :)
The git/hg integration is pretty nice too. But I agree that IDEAJ has always been my favorite IDE (I really liked the inspections and the simpleUml plugin), I moved to Eclipse only for economic reasons - and I miss too much features in IDEAJ community edition :) Agree with Vincent that with Maven, developers are completely independent of IDEs - and it's a very good thing.
I will simply use the Community edition until I can afford a license for the Ultimate one. JetBrains has really done a great job with IntelliJ, and I will be to reward them when possible (currently, it is a bit hard for me).
Any idea of what we could do? A blog post on xwiki.org could be written, mentioning the number of xwiki committers using it and providing some quotes from each devs, wdyt?
I would surely put my quote with pleasure on such blog post, this is a nice idea.
Thanks
-Vincent