This wiki does not contain official documentation and is currently deprecated and read only. Please try reading the documentation on the Liferay Developer Network, the new site dedicated to Liferay documentation. DISCOVER Build your web site, collaborate with your colleagues, manage your content, and more. DEVELOP Build applications that run inside Liferay, extend the features provided out of the box with Liferay's APIs. DISTRIBUTE Let the world know about your app by publishing it in Liferay's marketplace. PARTICIPATE Become a part of Liferay's community, meet other Liferay users, and get involved in the open source project. IntelliJ
IntelliJ IDEA is a commercial Java IDE by JetBrains, often referred simply as IntelliJ.
The latest version of IntelliJ (11.1) includes a number of advanced features such UML-like class diagrams, visual Hibernate modeling, Spring 3.0 and Play Framework support, Dependency and Data Flow Analysis, Apache Maven support, Intelligent Coding Assistance and On-the-fly Code Analysis. A complete list can be found at their features page.
Jetbrains provides a fully functional 30-day trial version of the commercial edition for various platforms. Also available is an open source Community Edition. Check the differences between commercial and community versions here.
You can extend IntelliJ default features by installing plugins. Right now their Plugin Repository lists more than 500 plugins, both freeware and commercial.
Here you can find more information about how Using IntelliJ with Liferay
