JetBlog :: November 2004
Fabrique: integration with IntelliJ IDEA
We have changed the strategy a bit, so we are making the Fabrique IDE
now as an extension to IntelliJ IDEA rather than a separate tool.
So basically you will be able to enable Fabrique support in IDEA, create a Fabrique module, define all
the pages and business model, use your existing classes from other modules to create a working web application, plus get
all the features of IDEA for working with regular Java code you can be using in Fabrique apps. We are planning to continue
the EAP of Fabrique right when the EAP for IDEA 5.0 starts. And this time we want to make it immediately available for
every IDEA user. We hope this will simplify the adoption and speed up the development.
Omea Reader: my personal reading environment
We all know how it feels, working on different projects, trying to sync with the latest news, keep up with what our professional environment generates: weblogs, sites, newsgroup messages. It takes my time. It makes me install several applications and run them simultaneously. I want to know all important news as soon as they arrive and set up different notifications in those apps… I am tired of the problem. So are my bosses. So is my team.
Omea family of tools that we are now working on here at JetBrains is right about this: to let us work with different information resources in just one application. The first (smaller) member of the family is already released: Omea Reader 1.0.
Omea Reader was designed as a convenient all-in-one RSS aggregator, newsgroup reader and bookmark manager. Moreover, it provides all set tools for searching, reading, organizing and managing these resources. My favorites are:
- Collecting resources of different types under categories instead of folders or whatever containers I used before for keeping useful things in.
- Using annotations along with flagging for later reference.
- Shortcuts bar for keeping shortcuts to my favorite blogs and newsgroups.
Download it and use it - Omea Reader is free till the end of the year. Tell us what you find useful, what features would you like to see in the next release. We'll be happy to see you on our online forum or at the Omea Reader public newsgroup (jetbrains.omea.reader at the server news.jetbrains.com). And if you prefer personal correspondence, our email is feedback.omea@jetbrains.com