IntelliJ IDEA 6.0已经发布一段时间啦，IntelliJ IDEA 7.0的特性已在规划中，IntelliJ IDEA 7.0的第一个里程碑版本中，将包含以下特性，这个版本将在2007年3月份左右发布，下面让我们看看这些特性：

Performance improvements

• JSP editing
• Faster startup and project opening
• More operations performed in background (Find Usages, cache update etc.)

Refactorings

• DnD for move class packages in Project View
• Extract constructor (from another constructor)
• Move class into other class
• Inline (inner) class as anonymous
• Create inner class from usage

Find Usages

• Faster "Find Usages" for commonly used names using compiler caches
• "Find usages" navigation (back/forward/history)
• Background mode
• Display code context for selected usage

Find in Path

• Support scopes
• Find in zipped sources
• Find in library sources

Debugger

• Frame/Watches simultaneous view
• Smart step
• Show function return value (JDK 1.6)
• Automatic watches view

New project creation

• Detection of libraries
• Detection of JavaEE aspects

Version controls

• ClearCase integration
• Create/Apply Patch
• Shelve Changes (temporarily remove from code and save as patch, then later restore)
• Showing up-to-date list of recently committed changes for the project in a toolwindow
• Generic support for offline VCS operations
• Store per-project mapping of VCS roots to project directories instead of module-based VCS config
• Autodetect VCS configuration for project

Ant integration

• Support for ant 1.7 (unified resources: classpaths, filesets, etc.)
• Redesign of ant toolwindow in order to improve usability of managing huge build scripts
• Support for AntUnit ([http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/antunit])

Analysis

• External annotations
• Link from inspection highlights to inspection description (more obvious)
• Link to inspection settings page from suppress annotation

JavaME

• Ant generation
• Emulators extension support (provide examples)

TC Integration

• Download full inspection report for browsing in IDEA
• Apply quickfixes from server
• Instant highlight of duplicates in editor

Java EE

• Facets introduction (sub-module project structure), migration of Java EE modules and frameworks supports to facets
• Spring support
• Hibernate
• Database/mapping structure diff for JPA & Hibernate

JavaScript

• JavaScript documentation support
• Extract method, inline refactorings

Misc

• Maven integration
• TestNG integration
• Open file(s) in editor by DnD (from project view & external file manager)
• Silent install

总结： 个人认为Maven、Spring、TestNG、Javascript和TeamCity的集成或提高，将会给开发效率带来极大的提高，如Maven和TestNG的集成可能让更多的人使用这两款工具。当然JSP的性能调整也将给不少Web开发人员带来更高的效率。