IntelliJ IDEA 7 vs JDeveloper 11g Pros and Cons

Question

Here is a thread we can discuss what we like or dislike as a comparision between IDEA 7 and JDeveloper.
Surya De mentioned in the other thread that IDEA has exceptionally strong code editing and code analysis features. In my experience I don't find IDEA's code analysis any more useful than JDeveloper's. And it's details about the code editing that I like in JDeveloper and dislike in IDEA.
Some of the details I find annoying in IDEA:
Code Folding - IDEA seems to unfold when I don't want it to; IDEA requires a multi-step menu choice whereas in JDeveloper I just right click on the folding area and select the option I want.
Java Doc generate - I prefer the way JDeveloper lets me generate the JavaDoc stub for a method.
Light bulb - I'm not sure how to describe it but in IDEA a statement may be underlined and flagged as wrong or might have an option to change it or improve it, in JDeveloper there is a nice simple light bulb I can click on to access these choices, in IDEA that "light bulb" seems to be very elusive and I can't figure out how to get it to stay there so I can click on it (most of the time I end up just manually putting in the code rather than using JDeveloper's wonderful assistance).
In what way is IDEA's Ctrl+N different from JDeveloper's Ctrl+-? They both work equivalently as far as I can see (JDeveloper is a little too aggressive in trying to guess what class you wanted)
IDEA forces me to manually set the run target instead of intelligently trying to run the class I am working on. This could be a pro or a con, but I'm used to JDeveloper's style and thus I always catch myself running the wrong thing in IDEA.
IDEA is slow compared to JDeveloper.
IDEA is terrible for building a standard client application JAR file (JDeveloper does this very nicely with it's deploy profiles).
IDEA lacks "status icons" for version control, I find the slight color change of file names to be inferior.
IDEA's non-standard usage of the term "project" is confusing.
IDEA lacks the nice little "X" close icon for closing a file you are editing.
"History" comparison I find nicer in JDeveloper.
In IDEA if I have folded code I have to hover over the code itself (making for a lot of mouse movement) to quickly view the folded code (without unfolding it), in JDeveloper I can just run my mouse up and down the left edge where the fold icons are.

Answer 1

Code Folding - Simple you can set it up in the Settings -> Editor -> Appearance tab an select which ones to collapse by default. All you do is mouse over the folded area in the editor and it will show you without expanding, the contents inside it...until you click that then it will explode the folded area.
Javadoc generation - Never tried it. But writing comments is easy and you dont need to know any syntax since it gives you suggestions. You will see them in yellow or red in the error stripe bar on the right just like Jdeveloper.
Light bulb - Intellij has light bults also and its context sensitive. Sometimes if you write bad code it will highlight and make it show as yellow on the stripe bar on the right and if you click then you will see a light bult on the left with a suggestion to rewrite the code and it rewrites the code for you. You can set a profile as to what the editor should look for in terms of non-optimal coding. A quick example is if you have code like (Long[]) zoneIds.toArray(new Long[0]) Intellij would rewrite it as (Long[]) zoneIds.toArray(new Long[zoneIds.size()]) and give an explanation about how the previous would be using reflection and how this one would not. This is just a small example. There are literally 100s of settings for the code analysis tool.
Speed - I dont see any difference. I am running Intellij on Mustang the latest build. And so is my JDeveloper at home.
As for the other stuff you mentioned with the project and jar file etc I dont bother because we are using Ant. I can set up the ant build file into Intellij and just right click on the target I want. But most of all I like using command line better.
IDEA does lack the little x close icon on the tab for the file you are editing but seriously hit Ctrl F4 or just middle click. Thats a bit ridiculous for mentioning that.
Local History/ CVS History - I do like JDevelopers a bit better. But Intellij has more details. As in if you fired up debug mode and made some changes in your code it will mention that as an event in your local history and that makes it easier which JDeveloper doe not have.
'In IDEA if I have folded code I have to hover over the code itself (making for a lot of mouse movement) to quickly view the folded code (without unfolding it), in JDeveloper I can just run my mouse up and down the left edge where the fold icons are. '
Dont even know how to reply to that...I dont count mouse movement as one of my criteria...
You can right click on a file in Intellij, hit Analyze code and it will show you a list of things in the code that can be cleaned up/fixed/etc based on profiles you select. They can be anything from performance fixes to too complex if statements. Pretty much as if you are doing code review. There are tons of options. And you can see all the items that Intellij is suggesting to fix, right click and just Apply Fix and they all get cleaned up in one shot. You can do this to your modules as well.
DSM - Go to Intellij's website and look this one up. Really useful for analyzing your overall codebase and finding circular dependencies etc etc.
Also the code completion in the editor in Intellij is a lot smarter. I can use Ctrl Space for the regular thing that JDeveloper does. But Ctrl SHift Space does smart code completion which I find extremely useful when writing stuff like say...uh...SomeObject obj = new SomeObject(). I can just type SomeObject obj = n and hit Ctrl Shift Space and it will write the rest of of it for me. Also if the constructor requires some parameters and you have those parameters initialized it smartly sticks those in there for me.
Also when you are naming objects or variables with Ctrl Space it can put a Java Coding Convention compliant name for your object or variable so you dont have to think of one and its pretty cool. A lot of nifty little things in there.
Lets see Alt Insert shorcut is awesome for constructor, getter/setter generation and a few others.
Also Ctrl J is an awesome feature to have where there are code templates already in place and you can just have boiler plate code for iterating over array, writing for loops etc so you just select what you want and based on what variables are in place it will automatically write your loop structures, your try catch blocks etc for you.
Also Ctrl H is another feature I like that shows in a window on the side the hierarchy of the class you are looking at.
Theres lots of little gems in there that I cant thing of writing about right now.
I still dont understand 'IDEA's non-standard usage of the term "project" is confusing.' If that is a complaint it seems you are reaching!
Like I said. Intellij is superior in terms of usability with keyboard and its editor and code analysis. You dont need findbugs or PMD for that. Its better actually than them.
But thats it. I think JDeveloper in terms of the wizards and all that I like that. Thats why I use JDeveloper when using SOA, or doing quick prototyping. And it works seamlessly if you have a full Oracle stack. But if you are using Apache or other web servers Intellij makes it easy since you jsut configure the server in your IDE and it does the rest.
Also it comes with Hibernate, Spring, support and now Flex (Intellij 8) out of the box. Thats pretty cool. Very useful.