JetBrains, Inc., creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing applications, today announced the release of IntelliJ IDEA 5.0, the newest version of the company's award winning Java IDE.

IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 is a professional-grade tool for developers working in situations where time is money and sustained productivity is a measure of success. Staying always in close touch with those who use the IDE daily, JetBrains carefully designed IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 to bring out the very best in Java development, amplifying and validating their community-oriented approach with dedicated customer support for which the company is noted.

"Version 5.0 continues the JetBrains history of changing how developers think about programming," said Eugene Belyaev, JetBrains president and CTO. "Developers, like athletes, sometimes refer to being 'in the flow' or 'in the zone,' where time recedes into the background and a person's abilities open to their fullest. Tools that help developers reach this superstate are invaluable because developer productivity skyrockets, as those who use IntelliJ IDEA often attest."

This release is jam-packed with new features and improvements to maximize your productivity. This list is just a sample of what's new:

• Web and Enterprise development
  • Enhanced JSP support (covering JSP 2.0) with unparalleled level of code understanding that IDEA users originally had for Java, including refactorings and code inspections, import optimization, code completion, validation, formatting, navigation, finding usages, etc.
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP Expression Language, and property files support, with all smart editing and error highlighting features, including code completion, refactorings, navigation, inspections, finding usages and more
• More than 170 new code inspections help improve your code quality and avoid bugs:
  • Improved configuration options to make it easy to change which inspections are highlighted on-the-fly as you code, and which are run during offline inspections (as part of a code review process)
  • Revolutionary detection of possible NullPointerExceptions and API contract compliance verification based on Java 5.0 annotations helps you avoid some of the nastiest bugs around -- and it works instantly as you type!
  • Internationalization tool with dedicated inspection and quick-fix to move hard-coded strings to a resource bundle
• Subversion and Perforce VCS integrations
• Enhanced Codebase navigation and presentation including:
  • Favorites views
  • External stacktrace navigation with unscrambling support
  • Quick content lookup
  • Image files browser and thumbnails view
  • Backward and cyclic dependencies analysis for class/package/module/project
• New refactorings and important improvements to the existing ones -- including world's most complete Move Method refactoring, and propagating parameters and exceptions in the call-stack with Change Method Signature
• More flexible debugger, with dependent breakpoints and custom object views
• J2ME support
• Import of JBuilder and Eclipse projects
• Enhanced Open API for more flexible and complex extensions (with the new Plugin module type, for easier running/debugging/deploying); it is now possible to create language plugins, with the same level of editor smartness that IDEA provides for Java

For more complete details, see What's New in IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 (English) and What's New in IntelliJ IDEA 5.0 (Chinese).