Osmorc to be bundled in next IDEA release

Some of you may already have heard the big news. Osmorc will be a bundled plugin in the next major release of IDEA, which is codenamed Maia and will most likely become IDEA 9.

The first Maia EAP releases already contain Osmorc. We are currently also adding changes we do for the Maia version to the IDEA 8 version and will have some more releases of Osmorc for IDEA 8, but eventually at some point in the future we will switch to only develop the Maia version.

You should be able to open projects using Osmorc with Maia and find that they still work. Be sure to make a backup of your project settings as you might not be able to open it with IDEA 8 and find that it still works there afterwards. Maia-Osmorc for example converts all Equinox run configurations to enhanced OSGi bundle run configurations. That kind of enhanced OSGi Bundle run configuration is not available in the current Osmorc release for IDEA 8. It will be available in the next IDEA 8 version, though.

Please note that issues for Maia-Osmorc should be posted on the component OSGI Support in the project IDEA Feedback. Please also post new feature requests in that area and not in the old Osmorc project.