Ted’s Rants and Raves by Ted M. Young

Another 7.0.3 release candidate (#2) is now available:

Selena, build 7744 (IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 Release Candidate 2) is available
at http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/Selena+EAP

Detailed release notes: http://jetbrains.net/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=11550&styleName=Html&projectId=10132&Create=Create

Looks like mostly new features and fixes for Adobe Flex development, with some other miscellaneous but not earth-shattering fixes. As usual, I’ll download, install and start using it. I enjoy the bleeding edge.

Looks like the Structure101 plugin is now an official IntelliJ IDEA “companion”. At first I thought it was just a superset of IDEA’s DSM (dependency structure matrix), but it appears to have many more features than that, including ways to have your continuous build warn you of architectural violations in a way similar to PMD or Checkstyle, but obviously at a much higher level or different point of view. See the Structure101 features page on JetBrains’ site for more info.

I’ll be taking a look at the plugin soon (there’s a free trial), but I mention it because it’s not been unheard of for IntelliJ IDEA Companion products to be incorporated into IDEA itself. Based on the price of Structure101, I’m not sure that this would happen since it’s normally US$599. For now, there’s a US$100 discount through March 31, 2008 using the coupon LDJNZ-BYG0P-E1I27-OLMI9-L8KY5 at http://companions.jetbrains.com/structure101/license.html.