This book will help developers dig a little deeper into IDEA andembrace its streamlining features which allow for more time to bespent on project design rather than code management. Without someeducational investment, however, IDEA can be just another editor.That then, is the purpose of this book. To not only get you up andrunning quickly, but to teach you how to use IDEA's powerful softwaredevelopment tools to their fullest advantage. Important productfeatures, including the debugger, source code control, and the manycode generation tools, are carefully explained and accompanied bytips and tricks that will leave even experienced IDEA users with"Eureka!" moments of informed programming. Coders just graduatingfrom NOTEPAD and Java IDE veterans alike will profit from thepowerful and timesaving expertise provided in this essentialprogrammer's resource. IDEA is a next-generation IDE for Java, anIntegrated Development Environment. As the term IDE implies, IDEAintegrates or combines all of the tools needed to develop Javasoftware into a single application and interface. In other words,IDEA is a tool that helps develop Java applications more quickly,easily, and intelligently. IDEA can help with every phase of aproject, from design and development to testing and deployment. Thisbook is based on the IntelliJ IDEA Java development environmentsoftware from JetBrains, version 5.0"