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Third-party plugins for IntelliJ IDEA bring value to developers
URL: JetBrains
At 7:52 AM on Dec 14, 2005, Alexander Morozov wrote:
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JetBrains is kicking off a new Companion Products Program ™. As a tool user, you can save a lot of time and effort locating third-party tools and add-ins that are integrated for IntelliJ IDEA. You can be confident about Companion products because we've already tested them to be sure the integration is solid.
For starters, we've teamed up with Sixth and Red River Software to bring you three powerful new refactoring and code analysis plugins for IntelliJ IDEA:
Refactor-J
Refactor-J delivers new smart Java refactorings that enable designs to be easily maintained, improved and updated. Refactorings provided by Refactor-J include:
Refactor-X
Refactor-X delivers new XML refactoring support that enables XML schemas and files to be easily modified as requirements change. With ten powerful structural refactorings, Refactor-X allows developers to quickly and painlessly modify the many XML, HTML, and JSP files they are responsible for. Using Refactor-X, developers can easily swap the contents of XML tags and attributes, delete obsolete content, add or remove layers of XML abstraction, and clean up ill-structured tags. Refactor-X makes XML design decisions cheap and easy to correct, and thus lowers the cost of making those decisions. Refactorings provided by Refactor-X include:
All of the refactorings in Refactor-X work in HTML, XHTML, JSP, and JSPX files, making it a powerful tool for the maintenance of high-quality, consistent web applications.
Inspection-JS
Inspection-JS harnesses the power of automated code analysis for JavaScript and AJAX applications. As web sites become more interactive, the JavaScript code behind them becomes larger, more complex, and more crucial to a web application's success. Inspection-JS can find and report on over seventy different Javascript issues, including:
All Inspection-JS inspections work in HTML, XHTML, JSP, JSPX, and JavaScript files, making it an essential tool for maintaining complex web sites.
All three plugins maintain the high level of usability IntelliJ IDEA is famous for, and feature seamless integration with popular version control systems. You can find out more about them and download with a 14-day free trial at www.jetbrains.com/companions
If you develop IntelliJ IDEA integrated tools, you are welcome to join JetBrains Companions for a new way to reach potential customers.
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Re: Third-party plugins for IntelliJ IDEA bring value to developers
Well there saying:We've done poor JavaScript inspection so far so please pay $49 more to buy the Inspection-JS to get a better JavaScript experience.
Or even:
We have no intention to do better JavaScript inspections so please buy this $49 third party plugin.
Re: Third-party plugins for IntelliJ IDEA bring value to developers
It's a partner program. These extensions aren't created by the publishers of IntelliJ, however they are offering to create a centralised marketplace for commercial plug-ins on their own site. A one-stop shop.http://www.intellij.org/ has open-source plug-ins, although not all are up-to-date.
> Well there saying:
>
> We've done poor JavaScript inspection so far so
> please pay $49 more to buy the Inspection-JS to get a
> better JavaScript experience.
No. This is extra features, not better versions of the stuff already there.
> Or even:
>
> We have no intention to do better JavaScript
> inspections so please buy this $49 third party plugin.
Not true either. Inform yourself by looking at the feature matrix for IDEA 6 (already partially implemented) and support forums, and you'll see that both the plug-in and the core product's inspections are getting more features, including some crossover from the plug-in to the main product.
From what I've seen on the support forums, these plug-ins (say the Refactor-JS one) add features that couldn't be included for time/money/resource reasons. Some may be included in future releases of IDEA, but not all. Apparently, if a feature in the plug-in that you buy is then added as a built-in feature to a future version, it's possible they'll add another feature free of charge to offset that and protect your investment, which seems fair to me. Even if they don't, well that's life, technology keeps evolving, you can at least take advantage of it now.
I'm considering the Refactor-J plug-in myself (to add generics support to things like Trove4J and other open-source libraries that aren't updated for Java 5), and of course anyone doing AJAX stuff might really benefit from the JavaScript code inspection (things like cross-browser warnings and so on).
Incidentally, I'm relatively defensive of IntelliJ because they seem to get a lot of bad press simply because they want to get paid a reasonable sum for innovating. They're not subsidised by say IBM or Sun, and have forced Netbeans and Eclipse to play catch-up (competition's great!). If another bit of software is one day a better match for me, I'll switch: I'm not blindy fanatic with a desire to burn money... I don't see too many people complaining because their computer hardware isn't free either...
Re: Third-party plugins for IntelliJ IDEA bring value to developers
It is wrong, man. Completely wrong.There saying: there are a lot of powerful tools and plugins around, which bring additional value for InteliiJ IDEA users, and JetBrains created the centralised marketplace for commercial plug-ins and now you can learn about first paticipants What's it.
Which part of the message you don't like? What somebody provide plugins for InteliiJ IDEA ? Probably you will be surprised to learn that there are hundreds of plugins available and how active is the community around . But it is very obvious that popular product, which has significant market share, makes people interested to develop their own extensions and/or to look for existing ones.
Maybe you don't like that people want to monetize their great done job? Well, it is like the difference between Capitalism and Communism. Believe to the person born in the Soviet Union. You can stay waiting while big corporations will give you something for free. It will be later then you need it, it will not have the features/quality you need but the features/quality they are ready to provide you for free, and then they will sell you what you really need for double or triple price when you understood all limitations of free. As you perfectly know there is no such thing as free lunch.
Please don't take me wrong. We are not against open source software and JetBrains is active supporter of Open Source Community . But we strongly believe that any job should be monetized in some way. It can be product sales, it can be sales of professional services/consultancy/support, it can be sales of hardware but this or that way everybody should earn some money to pay their bills. Our way and the way of our partners is to sell great quality commercial software products. Some companies use another approaches, which they just present as giving for free. But who can believe?
alex(dot)tkachman(at)jetbrains(dot)com
Re: Third-party plugins for IntelliJ IDEA bring value to developers
James,I'm not quite sure how JetBrains can be faulted for their "poor" JavaScript inspection capabilities, since no other IDE has any such capabilities at all, nor (as far as I know) do any other IDE or plugin companies have any intention to create such capabilities. At Sixth and Red River Software, we saw this gap, saw that we had the capability to fill the gap, and decided to go to market with it. JetBrains looked over what we had done, liked it, and decided to collaborate with us on marketing. I'm not sure exactly which of these actions you find problematic.
JetBrains may be the most innovative company around (they'd certainly get my vote). The roadmap for their next release is so aggressively innovative that it would be hard to believe they can pull it off, if I hadn't seen them do it before. But even JetBrains can't think of every cool new idea. The plugins Sixth and Red River Software has created add capabilities to IntelliJ IDEA unavailable in any other IDE in the market, and do so at rock-bottom prices. I suppose someone can find a reason to complain about anything, but I'm honestly unable to see any reason for you to complain about that.
Sixth and Red River Software
A proud creator of Recommended Companion Products for IntelliJ IDEA
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Re: Third-party plugins for IntelliJ IDEA bring value to developers
He's just making a knee-jerk reactionary statement about something he knows nothing about; in other words, trolling. Don't feed the trolls.James, take the time to learn about something before you comment on it. In other words, don't be a troll.
Personally, I've been completely impressed with Sixth and Red River to the point that I'm in awe of their capabilities. The innovation and quality of their software rivals or equals that of JetBrains. If anyone is a fan of JetBrains software, you can rest assured that you will get value for money with Sixth and Red River. I believe they have a limited time deal to get the whole package for only $99. That's a great deal. See http://www.sixthandredriver.com/ .