Native Compiled Intellij IDEA Release Notes
Some time ago, JetBrains introduced a free edition of its brightest Intellij IDEA IDE. Excelsior used this opportunity to native compile and package this edition of IDEA with Excelsior JET and made the compiled version freely available.
We have been working with the native compiled IDEA for a few months and found one major distinction: long lasting GC pauses no longer appear when using the IDE.
Try it yourselves: Intellij IDEA 9.0.310.5.2 Community Edition is available for download at Excelsior JET Application Gallery!
Develop with pleasure!
Note for IDEA plug-in developers.
To compile and run your own plug-ins to IDEA, copy two directories
IDEA Home/lib
IDEA Home/plugins
from the original installation to native compiled one. We did not include these IDEA jars in the native package because they are not needed to run the pre-compiled IDE. However, the original classes are required for plug-in development, which can be enabled by simply copying the above directories.
Tags: Java, performance
October 8th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Great news! Are you planning to release a linux version?
October 8th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Yes because people start asking for it.
Stay tuned.
October 9th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
More great news!!
October 13th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Mac OS X version?
October 13th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
First, 64-bit port of Excelsior JET (under development), then version for Mac OS X, and finally, native IntelliJ IDEA for Mac (of course
In other words, you gotta wait for some time.
November 5th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Intellij IDEA 9.0.3 Community Edition for Linux is also available for download at Excelsior JET Application Gallery
December 13th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Will you please natively compile just released IntelliJ IDEA 10 (it’s the one with Android development plugins)? Only then it would become really worth using. I’m looking forward to it as I’m a hude fan of Excelsior JET.
December 14th, 2010 at 5:07 am
@Shine Developer
May I ask why you want to use the compiled IDEA? What’s your motivation?
December 23rd, 2010 at 4:13 pm
@Vitaly Mikheev
Well, I have Ultimate Edition of IntelliJ and use it for Java EE development. IntelliJ in the Community Edition is not much useful as it has very limited number of plugins. One interesting plugin, though, is the new Android plugin so finally there is a usecase for IntelliJ Community Edition.
And from the perspective of Excelsior JET: I would like to finally see it in action on more than just test scenarios and as IntelliJ is an IDE I work with since 2005 I feel every small bit of change and improvement so I could really evaluate Excelsior JET this way.
December 24th, 2010 at 2:39 am
@Shine Developer
Intellij IDEA 10.0.1 Community Edition is now available for download at Excelsior JET Application Gallery
February 14th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Hi,
Can it be possible to apply updates from the IDEA site when you are using the native 10.0.1 version?
February 17th, 2011 at 5:29 am
When will Jet be available for Mac OS X?
Many Java developer are looking for a solution to native compile Java apps for the Mac store….
March 3rd, 2011 at 11:47 pm
I’m experiencing crashes when working with multiple projects (opening/closing them without exiting Idea). If you’re interested I can submit jet_err_*.txt files – just email me.
March 4th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
@Tobi
Now we are busy with 64-bit Windows/Linux port and MAC OS will probably be our next target we will start working on in 2012.
March 4th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
@NyxNyxNyx
Please email us at “java at excelsior-usa.com” with this problem.
September 6th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Do you have plans to update it to IntellJIdea 10.5.2?
September 8th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Yes, of course. Native compiled IDEA 10.5 is under internal testing now. We will update it by the end of this month.
October 8th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Updated to 10.5.2, both Windows and Linux.