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Things I hate in IntelliJ compared to Eclipse

Ravi Nallakukkala — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:40:12 +0000

I come from a strong Eclipse background and in my new assignment, my project team uses IntelliJ IDE; So thought let me check this IntelliJ editor. As expected (after being loyal to Eclipse for many years) first I noticed all the bad things about IntelliJ, Here’s my list of bad things (Let me know if there is a better way of using IntelliJ to get around my problems)

Once you setup you project on IntelliJ, next time when you open IntelliJ, It takes long time to open the project/ IDE (does some scanning of Java/ jar files) worst part is you can’t even minimize that window/ run the process in back ground.
Upon installing a plug-in, Eclipse asks for a restart of workbench and upon your approval for restart, eclipse automatically restarts, For the same, Interestingly IntelliJ asks “You need to shut down IDEA to activate changes in plugins. would you like do it now? “; (Notice question doesn’t say ‘Restart’ ); So as expected, you have to (re)start your IDEA explicitly after installing a plugin.
You Can’t drag and drop a Java file from one folder to another folder.
IntelliJ expects a developer to configure the classpath twice, once to build the application and the second to run the application compared with eclipse where the same class is used by default.
With little time i spend on IntelliJ, haven’t found a way to add some pre-configured code templates.

Eclipse IntelliJ Shortcut keys a comparison

Ravi Nallakukkala — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:44:32 +0000

In my new project, my team was using IntelliJ as their IDE and I come from a strong Eclipse background, Initially it was hard time to find out all the Shortcut Keys for IntelliJ so thought I could document the shortcut keys that I commonly use, I will update this list as my learning experience continues with IntelliJ

Description	Eclipse shortcut	IntelliJ Shortcut
Navigate a Java Type	CTRL + ALT + T	CTRL + N
Navigate a Resource	CTRL + ALT + R	CTRL + SHIFT +N
Last Modified Source	ALT + Left arrow	CTRL + ALT + left arrow
Debug	F11	Shift + F9
Open Declaration	F3	CTRL + SHIFT + B
Open Hierarchy	F4	CTRL + H
Organize Imports	CRTL + SHIFT + O	CTRL + ALT + O
Find	CTRL + F	CTRL + F
Find Again/ previous	F3 / SHIFT + F3	F3 / SHIFT + F3
Step Into	F5	F7
Step Over	F6	F8
Step Out	F7	Shift + F8
Resume	F8	F9
To find impl of an abstract Method	?	Ctrl + Alt + B

PHP Designer 2007 - Personal is a free IDE for PHP

Ravi Nallakukkala — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:54:35 +0000

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Eclipse

Ravi Nallakukkala — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:47:48 +0000

Need less to say this is a extreamly popular free java editor, http://www.eclipse.org/

WSAD/ RSA 6.x are based on Eclipse technology.

Please look here for any Eclipse plugins