IntegraStudio Beta builds are quite functional. They contain core features needed for development (comparable to other languages support in Visual Studio). However, these builds are meant for testing and evaluation. You might still experience some bugs or inefficiencies. We strongly encourage you to give us feedback! If you find problems, do not hesitate to contact us. Especially important are all cases of crashes or hangs. We want to get rid of them before the official release.

If you've found bug/problem in IntegraStudio, then please contact us. Our support mail address is support@softerg.com. Please include all information you think might be relevant. For example, if you experience a crash during writing some code, a code snippet reproducing that crash would be immensely valuable for us.

There is also diagnostic mode. If you would like to create log file, then please go to IntegraStudio Preferences and enable logging, then repeat the action that caused a bug. On disk there should appear log file, remove from it all data you don't want to share and send it to us.

It depends. Eclipse has a vast ecosystem of plugins and it is not realistic to assume all of them can be re-created in other IDE (at least in reasonable time). However, speaking of Java coding features (like refactorings, 'code from usage' generators, etc.), we have them in our schedule. The technology behind IntelliSense for Java which we have already implemented has enough capabilities and performance to do these features as well.

Current releases of IntegraStudio are free. That will be for Alpha and Beta builds. When the product reaches official release status (est. 2016), it will be offered at very competitive price. Single developer license cost will be in $50 - $70 range, we also plan to offer site licenses for companies with even lower cost per developer.

There is also alternative way -- if you like IntegraStudio, think the product helps you in your Java development and want to get a free license -- there is no problem with that ;-) But there is a little catch: in return we'd ask you for a small favor. Basically we need a little help in popularizing IntegraStudio. So, if you happen to have a blog, a website, or other Internet activity, just drop a few words about IntegraStudio or a link to our website. Let us know, and we'll be glad to send you a license key without any payments (when the product goes commercial some day). BTW. you can use IntegraStudio with Visual Studio Community edition as well.

Since we are a small independent software company, we do not have million-dollar advertising budgets nor costly "partner" agreements which would give us marketing visibility. We can only rely on the quality of our products and the assumption that satisfied users will tell others about these products. It worked for our previous product, WinGDB and gave us a possibility to develop IntegraStudio. If you'd like to support an independent developer producing high quality software (and do it without spending any money), please consider the offer.

If you do not have a blog, you can also write a review on the Visual Studio Gallery site.

Visual J# is an implementation of Java language over CLR, that means .NET technology. It is no longer included in Visual Studio (since VS 2008). IntegraStudio is something completely different. It is a set of extensions to Visual Studio allowing development with use of real Java SDK on a real Java platform and debugging on a true JVM. IntegraStudio has no affiliation of any kind to Visual J#.

No, you must download and install Java Development Kit separately for these components. IntegraStudio only interfaces with existing JDK. However, it contains bundled packages of Ant and Maven, just for convenience. You can use your own versions of these tools. IntegraStudio has configuration options allowing to specify location of needed external components.

Beta builds already have a pretty good Ant support. Maven is being implemented and fairly advanced at the moment. Possibly we will add support for Gradle in some release. Generally, support for various Java tools is possible according to users' demand.

No, it uses only standard tools established in the industry (e.g. JDK/Ant/Maven). You can switch to/from other IDE any time while working on your project.

This is in fact one of the most important goals of IntegraStudio. Even using the current beta build, you can have both languages in single solution and build/debug them simultaneously. The more tricky part is debugger interoperability, like stepping from Java code to C++ and vice versa. This is partially implemented in the beta version. Stepping from Java to C++ should work. However, it has not been extensively tested yet, and we know of problems on some systems. Please contact us if you experience problems with it. More features for seamless multilanguage development are on the way.

IntegraStudio supports Microsoft C/C++ compiler included with Visual Studio. Support for GCC is possible in the future.

IntegraStudio supports mixing various languages in single solution, as described above. It works for any language supported by VS, either by default or by means of an extension. Same goes for .NET platform languages. However, advanced debugger interoperability or other special integration features are not supported for .NET languages yet. It is possible to do in the future if we see enough demand for that.

No, it is an extension to Visual Studio. You need Visual Studio installation and license to use it. On the other hand, there is a technical possibility to adapt IntegraStudio to Visual Studio Shell for stand-alone operation. This can be done on enough user demand. There are no plans to do it for the 1.0 release, though. Also, with Visual Studio Community Edition, you can use Visual Studio for free (unless you are a big company) and there is no much need for separate IDE.

IntegraStudio is being tested under Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015. These are supported versions.

IntegraStudio supports all editions of Visual Studio except Express and Code editions. The Express editions lack extensibility support which is required. Visual Studio Code is really a different product and is incompatible with regular Visual Studio plugins.

That's quite possible. We do not aim to clone every feature of every existing IDE. This would not be realizable. Instead, we focus on what's important. We are strongly feedback-driven. If you think some feature is important, please tell us! Also note that current builds are only a particular stage of long-term product evolution. The features you need might be included in some future releases, so please stay tuned.

Starting with IntegraStudio 0.83, the core framework is finished. There are a couple of quick fixes already implemented, like auto-generating import declarations for missing type names. More will be implemented soon.

Also planned. Some preliminary implementation is done (class diagrams) but not ready for release yet.

Not planned at the moment. We'd like to focus on one language (Java) and do it well.

When it's done :-) No need to hurry, current beta status primarily means it is just offered for free, and getting better every quarter. So just enjoy coding in Java under Visual Studio ;-)

At the moment it would be too expensive for us. We don't hire any special support/marketing staff yet. It's possible it will change in the future. Now you should consider IntegraStudio as a shareware product. Our primary support channel is e-mail (support@softerg.com). Please feel free to contact us in any case if you have any question, a problem with IntegraStudio, found a bug, or have a new feature idea.