IntelliJ IDEA
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IntelliJ IDEA is a commercial Java IDE by the company JetBrains.
As of September 2004, the current version is IDEA 4.5
The first version of IntelliJ IDEA appeared in January, 2001 and quickly became very popular, as the first Java IDE with a rich set of integrated refactoring tools that allow programmers to quickly redesign their code. IntelliJ IDEA's design is centered around programmer productivity: there are a number of features that speed up development time and allow programmers to concentrate on functionality while IDEA handles more mundane coding tasks.
IntelliJ IDEA has often been compared to Eclipse (computing), a similar IDE from IBM, but IntelliJ's focus lies more on maximizing programmer efficiency. However, the two IDE's bear strong visual resemblance.
