I’ve been using IDEA for close to 2 years now and have hardly ever used any external plugins. I liked the plugin system for Eclipse, which to me is one of the few parts of Eclipse, that I kind of managed to grok.
This morning installing the latest build 1071 of Aurora the beta version of IDEA 4.0, I was just changing a few settings, while I stumbled upon their new Plugin Manager.
What can I say, excellent. It has 3 tabs:
- Installed Plugins
- Available Plugins
- Shopping Cart
So basically you can see which plugins are available from the IntelliJ Community web site. Then you can add them to your shopping cart and go to the Shopping Cart to install them all in one go.
My only annoyance is the need to restart IDEA for the plugins to work. Shouldnt it be possible in this Java world of dynamic class loading to load and initialize plugins without restarting?
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As I understand it, dynamic plugin loading/unloading is planned for the release after Aurora. The just didn't get to it in time for this release.
--Dave
Posted by: dave on January 6, 2004 09:38 AM