 intellij idea is a java ide by jetbrains. it is available as an apache 2 licensed community edition and a commercial edition.intellij source code in a report by infoworld in 2010, intellij received the highest test center score out of the 4 top java programming tools : eclipse, intellij idea, netbeans, and oracle jdeveloper.http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/infoworld-review-top-java-programming-tools-191 ==history== the first version of intellij idea was released in january 2001, and at the time was one of the first available java ide with advanced code navigation and code refactoring capabilities integrated.multi-language refactoringscrossing refactoring's rubicon - a famous article by martin fowler, mentioning intellij idea's support for automated refactorings. google is developing a product called android studio, an open source android development ide based on the open source community edition of intellij idea. ==features== version 12.1 includes support for java 8, ui designer for android development, play 2.0 and scala. supported languages: * actionscript/mxml * clojure (via separate plugin) * coffeescript * dart (via separate plugin) * groovy * haskell (via separate plugin) * haxe (via separate plugin) * html/xhtml/css * java * javafx * javascript * jelastic (via separate plugin) * kotlin (via separate plugin) * lua (via separate plugin) * node.js * php (via separate plugin) * python * ruby/jruby * scala (via separate plugin) * sql * type script (via separate plugin) * xml/[[extensible stylesheet language
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