This product is as good as I have heard - congratulations! I may almost be persuaded 
to stop using emacs. The quick Javadoc function is a great idea.

Since IDEA seems to me to be the best IDE from a smaller company, and it is already 
integrated with Javadoc, CVS and ANT nicely, I have a suggestion. Take a look at 
http://www.jdiff.org. This tool, which I wrote under LGPL, extends Javadoc to produce 
precise HTML reports about the differences between two Java APIs. Users can see in the 
report which methods, constructors and fields were added, removed, or changed. You can 
also see how the documentation comments changed. It is already set up to be easily run 
from ANT.

I am imagining an extension to the Javadoc section of the Project Properties, which 
would let a developer specify a CVS tag which identifies all the files in an older 
version of their product, and then IDEA runs the jdiff Javadoc doclet to produce HTML 
describing what changed. As far as I know, there is no other IDE on the market which 
provides this capability, so it would be as ground-breaking as the refactoring tools. 
JDiff is the only tool I have seen which does this properly.

CVS: You could also use jCVS (a pure Java CVS client) to avoid having to refer to an 
external CVS client.

~Matt

p.s. It was hard to find the existing IDEA documentation from the public webpage.

p.p.s. Which Java static compiler is used to produce idea.exe? Was it Jove?

Dr. Matthew B. Doar
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