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JetBrains’ Latest Idea: TeamCity Build System


New solution extends flagship IntelliJ IDEA into the nightly development process

By Alex Handy
November 1, 2006 — 
October was a .0 kind of month for JetBrains. The company placed IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 on the runway alongside a new build and code management system, dubbed TeamCity 1.0. The two combine their powers to extend unit testing and static code analysis into the daily and nightly development processes.

“IntelliJ IDEA is not a rich client platform for everything, nor is it very general and huge. IntelliJ IDEA is just a focused Java IDE. That is its strength,” said Alex Tkachman, JetBrains’ COO. He said that this focus allowed his team to improve such features as recursive language syntax highlighting and better static code completion.

IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 costs US$499 for a fresh copy, or $299 for an upgrade.

Tkachman said he was pleased with a new plug-in system that allows non-Java languages to be understood by the IDE. Already, he said, developers have released new tools that take advantage of it.

“One developer published an absolutely brilliant plug-in that used this API and Java annotations to annotate string fields, and methods—like containing—and return values from specific languages, and match specific regular expressions,” said Tkachman.

WINDOW INTO BUILDS
In October, the company also released version 1.0 of TeamCity, its new all-encompassing build solution.

This polis is covered with a Web UI that gives developers a full window into the build process and the unit testing process. Errors and build failures are automatically tracked back through the repository to narrow the list of suspects, said Tkachman. The system includes support for .NET and Java builds through MSBuild, Visual Studio 2005, Ant, Nant and Maven. For now, TeamCity works only with CVS, Perforce and Subversion repositories.

TeamCity does have some features that are supported only in IntelliJ IDEA. Primary among these is the ability to run static code analysis against the nightly build before it’s compiled.

But, said Tkachman, other Java IDEs will be supported in version 1.5.

Behind TeamCity, the software can delegate builds to network accessible computers of the user’s choosing. This functionality can be extended to a grid or simply to idling desktop PCs.

Until Dec. 1, the company is offering TeamCity user accounts for $199, according to Tkachman. Those who purchase IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 before December will also receive TeamCity 1.0 for free.


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