Things possible in IntelliJ that aren't possible in Eclipse?

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Published on 2008-10-27T12:36:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 1:27 UTC
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I have heard from people who have switched either way and who swear by the one or the other.

Being a huge Eclipse fan but having not had the time to try out IntelliJ, I am interested hearing from IntelliJ users who are "ex-Eclipsians" some specific things that you can do with IntelliJ that you can not do with Eclipse.

Note: This is not a subjective question nor at all meant to turn into a holy IDE war. Please downvote any flamebait answers. Thanks.

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