Re: JetBrains / IntelliJ IDEA v8 to Support FreeMarker!

On Tuesday 08 April 2008 17:46, mraible wrote:
> Randall Schulz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > JetBrains recently announced the availability of the first EAP
> > (early access program) release of version 8.0 of IDEA (code name
> > Diana). Among the new capabilities are built-in support for
> > FreeMarker template editing.
> >
> > <http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/Diana+First+EA
> >P+Release+Notes#DianaFirstEAPReleaseNotes-FreeMarkerSupport>
> >
> > ...
>
> I tried this out today with a Spring MVC + FreeMarker application.
> The support appears to be pretty primitive as my Spring macro library
> isn't recognized and most variables show up with warnings that they
> don't exist. Furthermore, there's no debugging support for setting
> breakpoints in templates (the JSP editor has this).
>
> I hope this plugin gets much better in the future. For now, it just
> seems to provide syntax highlighting.

Based on the release notes, I had the same impression. But if the usual 
JetBrains approach is applied to FreeMarker, support will get much 
deeper in short order.


> Are the Eclipse or NetBeans plugins any good?

Well, I'm allergic to Eclipse and I have scarcely any experience with 
NetBeans at all, so I can't say. (I just had to make my obligatory 
disparaging remark about Eclipse. It's awful!)


> Thanks,
>
> Matt


Randall Schulz

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