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IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment (IDE) for developing computer software. It is developed by JetBrains (formerly known as IntelliJ), and is available as an Apache 2 Licensed community edition, and in a proprietary commercial edition.

History
The first version of IntelliJ IDEA was released in January 2001, and was one of the first available Java IDEs with advanced code navigation and code refactoring capabilities integrated.

In a 2010 Infoworld report, IntelliJ received the highest test center score out of the four top Java programming tools: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans and JDeveloper.

In December 2014, Google announced version 1.0 of Android Studio, an open source IDE for Android apps, based on the open source community edition of IntelliJ IDEA. Other development environments based on IntelliJ's framework include AppCode, CLion, PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, WebStorm, and MPS.

Features
Version 12.1 includes support for Java 8, UI designer for Android development, Play 2.0 and Scala.

=== Supported languages === IntelliJ IDEA has two editions; Community Edition (Free) and Ultimate Edition (Paid). Both can be used for commercial development.

Technologies and frameworks
Ultimate Edition supports the following: Ultimate Edition also supports the application servers Geronimo, GlassFish, JBoss, Jetty, Tomcat, Weblogic, and WebSphere.
 * Ajax
 * Android
 * Django
 * EJB
 * FreeMarker
 * Google App Engine
 * Google Web Toolkit
 * Grails
 * Hibernate/JPA
 * Java ME MIDP/CLDC
 * JBoss Seam
 * JSF
 * JSP
 * OSGi
 * Play
 * Ruby on Rails
 * Spring
 * Struts 2
 * Struts
 * Tapestry
 * Velocity
 * Web services

Software versioning and revision control
The two editions also differ in their support for software versioning and revision control systems. Free plugins also exist for the Atlassian IntelliJ Connector integrating JIRA, Bamboo, Crucible and FishEye.

Plugin Ecosystem
IntelliJ supports plugins through which one can add additional functionality to the IDE. One can download and install plugins either from IntelliJ's plugin repository website or through IDE's inbuilt plugin search and install feature. Currently IntelliJ IDEA Community edition has 1495 plugins available, where as the Ultimate edition has 1626 plugins available.