JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA 9 Milestone 1

PRAGUE, June 20 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ –

– Milestone Release Gives a Glimpse of Things to Come in IntelliJ IDEA 9,
Makes Available Major New Features

JetBrains(R), creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for
software developers, have announced the availability of IntelliJ(R) IDEA 9
Milestone Release 1, an official preview of the award-winning Java IDE due
for release by the end of Fall 2009.

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The Milestone release is an important step toward the next version of
IntelliJ IDEA, designed to help developers stay in sync with the latest
technologies, frameworks and languages.

"We want to demonstrate the progress we’ve made toward IntelliJ IDEA 9
and show developers what it has in store for them," said Max Shafirov,
IntelliJ IDEA project lead. "A milestone release is also a great chance for
our users to voice their opinions and provide input on areas that still need
improvement. We will carefully evaluate and utilize all feedback. Developers,
in turn, can already start using the latest features we’ve implemented."

IntelliJ IDEA 9 continues to expand developers’ possibilities with the
following new features and improvements:

– Optimized overall performance and usability
– Improved core Java development facilities
– Java EE 6 support
– Tapestry and OSGi integration
– An optimized project indexing engine
– Support for Android and Google App Engine
– Global project-wide code analysis
– Improved Flex support
– GWT 1.6 support
– And much more

To learn more about IntelliJ IDEA and download the latest build, see the
official IntelliJ IDEA site at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion

About JetBrains

JetBrains is a technology-leading software development firm specializing
in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing software. The company
is widely known for its innovative, award-winning Java(TM) integrated
development environment, IntelliJ(TM) IDEA (see details on the Web at
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion), ReSharper and dotTrace Profiler
for .NET developers (see http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/index.html,
http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/index.html), TeamCity – a continuous
integration and build management environment (
http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/index.html), and RubyMine – a Ruby and
Rails IDE (http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby). JetBrains maintains its
headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic, with its R&D labs located in St.
Petersburg, Russia and Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, see
http://www.jetbrains.com/index.html

Note to Editors: JetBrains, IntelliJ, IntelliJ IDEA, ReSharper, dotTrace
and TeamCity are trademarks or registered trademarks of JetBrains, s.r.o. All
other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

SOURCE: JetBrains