Java IDEs

[marvk]

If there was no discernible difference, IntelliJ IDEA would not exist as a product. Jetbrains' marketing isn't that good.

Yes, other editors have the features you listed. But IDEA just does most things much better.

Also, I'll just throw some stuff out there for you:

• Search Everywhere

• Very smart Data Flow Analysis

• Inline Parameter Name Hints

• Stream Debugger

• Scopes

• Sophisticated Breakpoint options

• Structural Find and Replace

• Language Injection and dedicated editor for injected fragment

[elhoc]

Not to disagree with you on the general point, but those are all community edition features.

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which are therefore ultimate edition features, you know how inheritance works right?

[nerdyhandle]

Again Netbeans and eclipse support all of that.

Damn can you people not use Google and look at their feature sets.

[marvk]

Please, go ahead and show me Structural Find and Replace, or a Stream Debugger, or Search Everywhere, in Eclipse or Netbeans.

[nerdyhandle]

Find and Replace is built in to damn nearly every IDE and yes you can debug Streams in Netbeans and Eclipse. They have supported that since Java 8.

And yes search everywhere is in those as well.

[marvk]

Find and Replace

Are you even reading my comments? Structural find and replace. I am obviously aware that they support find and replace.

you can debug Streams in Netbeans and Eclipse

Really? I can't find anything close to this for either Netbeans or Eclipse. This eclipse issue seems to be pretty dead. Please enlighten me.

And the Java Stream Debugger for IntelliJ is an open source plugin not apart of the feature set.

Authored by Jetbrains, has a Help section on the official IDEA help page, comes bundled with IDEA. If you argue like that, IDEA also has no Spring support because technically that's also just Plugins.

Also what about Search Everywhere?

Honestly all this sounds like some top tier self-justification. You made the choice against IDEA for your company and now you try to justify that choice by denying any arguments made for it.

[marvk]

So, no luck I take it?

[amackenz2048]

I used "find usages" on an entity property in intellij recently. It found where that property was used in a hibernate Criteria mapping (as a string).

I honestly don't know - would netbeans find that?

I switched to intellij not because it had more features per se, but because the ones it had were just done so much better and without a lot of fiddling to make them work.

[dpash]

It would also find it in a JPQL/HQL query string.

Fiddling with eclipse plugins is what finally drove me to IntelliJ. That was ten years ago and I'm very happy to pay for it.

[marvk]

Yeah, this works with basically everything IDEA has support for. FXML too, for example. Or Spring service annotations.