Idea X EAP

I must admit that JetBrains developing team amazes me alost every time when I’m reading their last updates form rss. Currently, IntelliJ IDEA team has almost finished work on final version of IDEA 9 ( today, 9.0.4 has been announced ), but they already started creating complete new version of this software! Version 10, of course in beta stage, seems to have a few quite stunning improvements and new features. First of all, a brand new theme and UI options fo Mac users. I’m not pretty sure, but I think this time there are no problems and lags using scrolled lists etc. – everything seems to work a little bit faster.
What’s most important for flash platform devs, there are plenty of changes and improvements, such as:

• brand new icons for class, interface and mxml component. There is also difference if you mark class as dynamic or final :)
• Extract interface, extract base class. This is simply awesome and just rocks!. In some cases some errors are shown, but remember that this is EAP program and finding this issues is exactly what this is released for. Again, FlashBuilder, FDT, FD can only dream of that kind of stuff right now :)
• compiling css into swf
• possibility to choose target browser for testing flex apps or running FlexUnit tests
• option to put swf in local-trusted sandbox when running
• option to include debug info in swf/swc release
• redesigned ‘new ActionScript Class’/'new Flex Component’ wizards.

These are only couple of them, you can find all list in here. During EAP program to run IdeaX you can use your key for IntelliJ9, but for final release you will have to buy a new license :)