IntelliJ IDEA 7.0正式版与今日(10月16日)发布，新的版本延续了IDEA升级的传统，主要体现在以下方面：性能、可用性、用户体验、更多的特性、技术以及工具的集成等方面。在7.0正式发布之前，IDEA包含了两个MileStone版本，其中涵盖了7.0正式版本的绝大多数特性，这里还是要对7.0的特性进行简要介绍，更多的特性大家请参考：http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/newfeatures.html。

Hibernate and Spring integration:

• Coding assistance with smart completion
• Highlighting, code inspections and quick-fixes
• Spring file set editor
• Spring namespaces support
• Spring AOP support with full coding assistance, quick fixes and navigation
• Hibernate mapping structure view
• Editable Hibernate entities relationship diagram
• Hibernate/Spring-aware Refactorings
• Tight Hibernate/Spring integration

New and improved support for multiple languages and technologies:

• EJB & JPA
• JSP
• HTML & CSS
• XML
• More advanced JavaScript (with basic Flex) support
• Ruby/JRuby and Groovy development plugins to be released within coming weeks
• Highly anticipated Web services support
• Hibernate/Spring-aware Refactorings
• Tight Hibernate/Spring integration

New and innovative VCS features:

• Rational ClearCase integration
• “Review incoming changes”, to raise awareness of team members’ activity
• Ability to “shelve” local changes (temporarily remove modifications from code and restore them later)
• Other important enhancements

Numerous productivity-boosting features:

• New Java refactorings
• A rich set of refactorings for XML
• Around 50 new code inspections and quick-fixes
• More flexible search options

Variety of other enhancements:

• New flexible and intuitive approach to configuring complex Enterprise Applications
• Completely new debugger UI
• Innovative visual Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM)
• Top-notch performance
• Enhanced usability
• Enhanced usability