Intellij 8 is here!

After using Intellij 8 for one hour, I have to say JetBrains raised the bar. What I liked:

• Extract Method Object Refactoring: Lets you extract an object, where you can’t extract a method, because of multiple return values. I vaguely remember having spent a lot of time doing this manually to castor’s evil 1200 line sax event handler method to do some debugging…
• Extract Class: Pushes methods to a new class and creates a delegate + forwarding mehtod.
• Inject Language: Lets you define a language for string literals, which gives you all the intellij goodness in there.
• Growl integration: Long running operations such as builds and source control operations produce growl notifications on the mac.

Okay that’s enough of a love fest. Go get it! The personal license is only $249…