Re: Intellij for GWT app development. Is it worth it?

I have bought IntelliJ 12 on its release and I am pretty happy with the overall UI performance compared to Eclipse 4.2, feels a lot snappier.

Obviously it will take a while to get used to some of IntelliJ's concepts but there are some .. lets call it annoyances... I couldn't solve so far:

1.) No code styles per module. Coming from Eclipse with a single workspace containing independent projects each with own code styles this can be somewhat annoying.

2.) When using JPA and IntelliJ's Auto-Make you still have to hit 'Synchronize' to make newly generated JPA meta model source files (annotation processing) available in IntelliJ. Same when changing fields in JPA entities and you want to use these changes through the JPA meta model. With Auto-Make enabled I would have expected that IntelliJ automatically loads new/changed sources. Thankfully there is shortcut for 'Synchronize'.

3.) Auto-Make does not seem to work when GWT DevMode is running. When using an external server and I want to deploy class files through ant I have to call Make first to compile my changed source files and make them available on the server.

But other than the above IntelliJ is pretty nice with some very nice features. Have I mentioned that it feels a lot snappier? ;-)

-- J.

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