On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Wim Deblauwe <
wim.deblauwe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> IntelliJ 9.0 has been released with support for all kinds of languages (some
> of which are very new), but not AspectJ, although this great language exists
> for 10 years already. Do you think we should start a petition to try to get
> AspectJ support in the next IntelliJ version or all you guys all very happy
> with Eclipse and could not care less?
>
> I think that if at least 1 major competitor would also have AspectJ support,
> it would greatly enhance the adaption of AOP in general in AspectJ in
> particular.
>
> I did send an email to jetbrains about it and it should be possible to do in
> a plugin, given enough resources. Are there people here interested in
> starting such a project? Should we start a petition to make jetbrains do it?
> ;) Should SpringSource sponser it to help AspectJ adoption and their Spring
> Roo project that heavely uses it? Without proper AspectJ support in other
> IDE's, your are stuck to Eclipse and IntelliJ is just too great to switch to
> Eclipse.
>
> I would like to hear your thoughts on this.
>
> regards,
>
> Wim
>