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This page contains several ideas for plugin development.
Possible plugins may be:

Coding aids

"Helping hand"

IDEA configurations

J2EE

External tools integration

XML

GUI

Misc

Fun

Chat

Integrated Log4J viewer (chainsaw)

Other places to look for ideas

SQL

Adapters

Method generation/TODO plugin

JavaBean PropertyChangeListenerSupport

Coding aids

Favorites (bookmark) plugin: A panel could contain an organized tree of shortcuts to frequently used code. This could work just like the favorites panel in Internet Explorer or the bookmarks in Netscape (the term 'bookmark' is already used in idea, however).

a GoTo? File plugin: right click on Editor Window`s loaded class, select "Go to file" -> this will highlight/find/expand same file inside Project Tab window

Create New Class/Interface/... in same package plugin: right click on loaded in Edit file, and select the "Create New Class in same package". This plugin will allow creating new items in same package like loaded and actrive class has.

Create patch plugin: this plugin will compile loaded in editor sources and create a jar file which will contain only classes which source files are loaded into Editor.

cron capabilities built-in in intellij: I would like to specify

some commands to run at scheduled time, for example: sync from perforce, ant compile, ant create_libs. If intellij will have an easy ui interface to specify such win sequencies - that`s will be great!

an Auto-doc plugin that completes the return, param and throws Javadoc tags once you hit enter at the end of a method decleration.

a plugin that will allow to jump to the relevant method by regex. Same idea like GoToClass plugin, but for method names. Some shortcut to get popup list of all available method inside loaded class and jump to the selected one! VERY GREAT MISSING FUNCTIONALITY!

a pluging to load class into IntelliJ by regex (like CTRL-N,

with possibility to type regex) - Implemented, use GoToClass plugin

a plugin to -check- javadoc (is it present and correct in all opened files for example)

DTD-Support while coding XML-Access(JDOM). You could assign a .dtd or .xml to a JDOM-Document-Object. Then the plugin could help you while typing those Strings in the getChild(ren) or getAttribute-Methods. Will not be easy to implement, but could be very, very usefull...

How about a plugin that overrides the Getter/Setter functionality if you have specific code that you always write in a getter and setter. Right now, I use LiveTemplates for this and have to ignore the Alt+Ins Getter/Setter functionality.

XDoclet plugin that can integrate with IDEA's J2EE support, and allows running of XDoclet generation from an IDEA toolwindow. (alpha available)

JDO support - a JDO query takes a formatted string as a parameter. This string contains filtering code (which is essentially java). It would be nice to have syntax highlighting and other editor features within this string.

"Smart Paste" - escapes all control characters when pasting into a String.

Better Diff - All of idea understands the code properly, but the diff panel does not, its still is a text based tool. it should be possible to re write that code using the Psi interface to provide more intelligent diffs. such as when the method is refactored...

Caret movement - inside variable, constant, method and class names. Like ordinary word movement with <ctrl>+<left/right arrow> but word boundaries are detected in variable names, constants names, method names, class names etc. (All types of names should be optional by configuration.)

Constants resolver: Select code such as CONSTANT1 + "foo" + 2 + CONSTANT2 (CONSTANT1 and CONSTANT2 are final static String fields) and see a tooltip with the value. The information to resolve the constants is available at dev-time.

A CRC-card plug-in. It would automatically generate the list of Collaborators. And sync up the Responsibilities with the main class javadoc. And print out the cards.

A Patch management plugin. With IDEA's cvs integration, you can't do 'cvs diff -u' on the tree to create a patch, or apply a patch from within the tool. At the moment, submitting patches to open source projects has to be done with the command line.

"Helping hand"

a new "Commander" with many more features...

A deployment plugin which helps you to deploy your application and can construct .jar, .war or .ear files.

An audit plugin which checks your java code for bad statements. I think of something like the audit in together Control Center.

IDEA configurations

Plugin for customizing IntelliJIDEA menu/toolbar.

New LookAndFeel for IDEA with a better icon set, maybe when idea releases more UI classes in the OpenAPI. I'm experiencing now with my lnf, if you want help, contact me: taoufic@gmxNOSPAM321.de

J2EE

A plugin to integrate weblogic 7.0 in idea. Most of the IDE support such integration.

A plugin to integrate JBoss 3.2 in idea. JBoss developed a specific version for eclipse but there is no reason we can't have one too.

A plugin to develop J2EE resource adapters skeleton from wizards. Right now Forte For Java 4.0 EE supports this thru a plugin available from sun.

A plugin to assist in creating Struts message resources from existing pages. I would suggest a workflow like this:

While editing a JSP file, you highlight a piece of text, e.g. Enter username

You rightclick and select Convert to message resource

A dialog box prompts for the message key - you enter e.g. logon.usernameprompt

A resource, logon.usernameprompt=Enter username is appended to the ApplicationResources.properties file and the text is replaced with <bean:message key="logon.usernameprompt"/> Of course, the plugin could be more fancy, suggesting key names, allowing the properties file to be specified/chosen, handling multi-line properties etc.

External tools integration

Jmeter plugin - at minimum a plugin to run a testplan while specifiying properties. Nice additions would be the ability to create testplans, and/or to convert a testplan file to a template and dynamically fill the template with things to test.

Castor (http://castor.exolab.org/sourcegen.html) plugin to auto-generate Java classes given an XML Schema Descriptor file, and automatically insert generated classes into the source tree for current project. Auto-generate for JAXB would be good too, but JAXB sucks as of today (04/08/2003)

a plugin to follow BugZilla? issues (an HTML Browser may be sufficient)

Plugin for Log4J categories configuration - imagine a tool pane with the tree of packages/classes and ability to turn on/off debugging with a mouse click. Isn't it cute?. (An implementation can be found at http://www.intellij.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LogMonitorPlugin. This plugin is still in development.)

Ant build-scipt generator that takes current IDEA project settings and generates an Ant script that emulates IDEA's build process, for easy transitions from IDEA building to ant-based building.

Action for running all JUnit tests inside the source folder and panel for results inspection.

AspectJ plugin

JDependPlugin (Alpha available)

A plugin for easing development of JavaHelp help sets.

a "i18n" plugin: would make maintenance of language files (*_somelocale.properties) easier, like Zaval Java Resource Editor for example (http://www.zaval.org/products/jrc-editor/)

a "stats-tool". Creates stats about the count of classes, lines of code, biggest classes, properties...

Plugin for OptimizeIt? - at least to construct a configuration from the current project so you don't have to transfer the classpath, jdk, etc.. across by hand. Further integration to run a project under OptimizeIt? would obviously be even better.

a plugin that integrates with JUnit and every time you get a green bar, "checkpoints" your code into local VCS or external VCS of choice. Allows "dialing back" to the state of the code at the last green bar. Some discussion of this here: (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/testdrivendevelopment/message/2537)

Subversion is looking really great as a CVS replacement. I have not doubt this will be supported, but sooner is better than later. For more info: http://subversion.tigris.org/

JCSC (http://jcsc.sourceforge.net) support. JCSC is a tool to check code against coding standards and weaknesses -- potential bugs -- in the source code. If you have any idea/experiene please contact me at rjocham72@netscapeNOSPAM321.net

JDemo http://www.jdemo.de. Eclipse has a plugin http://www.jdemo.de/eclipse.html for this demonstration framework.

XML

The ability ( while editing a XML file ) to select a xsl file from the project path and apply it with the output going to a HTMLPane within the main frame

XSLT refactorings - for example "Extract Template", "Introduce Variable", etc.

GUI

A GUI designer - this could be done in a plugin so the people who don't want one don't have to deal with one, and those who do can have their cake (IDEA) and eat it too (design GUIs).

Misc

A toolbar test clock : running time since the latest junit test, .. since the latest working test, average, mean,..

Find newest Idea-version. Checks www.intellij.com/eap/downloads for new builds smile Take a look at VersionChecker

Fun

A little game like Pong :). With network-support?

A sound-plugin to customize sounds that are played when some actions occure. smile

Chat

Ok - so who wants to spend an hour recoding this plugin for IDEA? http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/IRC That way when we all hang out in #java on EFNet - we won't need an extra IRC window open wink

Integrate ICQ java client as tool window

Integrated Log4J viewer (chainsaw)

Having an integrated Log4J log message viewer would be nice. In fact, it took me 5 min to integrate chainsaw to IDEA, but it doesn't work - IDEA uses Log4J 1.1.3 and chainsaw is based on 1.2.4, and there are VerifyErrors?, Exceptions, etc... frown

An implementation can be found at http://www.intellij.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LogMonitorPlugin. This plugin is still in development.

Other places to look for ideas

Other IDE's have well-developed plugin systems; we should steal as many good ideas as possible!

JEdit: http://plugins.jedit.org/

JBuilder: http://codecentral.borland.com/codecentral/ccweb.exe/prodcat?prodid=3&catid=11

NetBeans? : http://www.netbeans.org/catalogue/

The plugin newsgroup: jetbrains.intellij.plugins

SQL

An integrated SQL viewer that will connect to any JDBC datasource and allow adhoc queries and table browsing.

Crufty initial implementation http://weblogs.flamefew.net/moatas/archives/000019.html

Active plug-in work here: SQLQueryPlugin

Adapters

Adapter plug-ins to allow JBuilder JEdit Eclipse NetBeans? plug-ins to run in IDEA

Adapter plug-ins to allow JBuilder JEdit Eclipse NetBeans? plug-ins

to run in IDEA * NetBeans? : http://www.netbeans.org/catalogue/

Method generation/TODO plugin
When you have IDEA automatically generate methods that a class is supposed to implement, it would be nice to have TODO markers placed inside those empty bodies so you don't accidentally forget one.

JavaBean PropertyChangeListenerSupport?
NetBeans? has a plugin to decorate accessor methods with the appropriate code to support PropertyChangeListeners?. It would be great if the create getter/setter functionality had the ability to add PropertyChangeSupport? the addPropertyChangeListener methods and generate the wrapper code inside the setters to fire the notifications.

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