Powerful connection manager
Illuminated Cloud includes a powerful Force.com connection manager that allows connections to multiple Force.com organizations in a single IDEA project.
Develop multiple managed packages in a single organization
Illuminated Cloud simplifies the development of content for multiple managed packages, especially when the packages have base/extension relationships. Traditionally this type of development has required the use of multiple organizations and long-running package upload, installation, uninstallation cycles.
Illuminated Cloud allows multiple packages (one managed for the base package and one or more unmanaged for the extension packages) in a single organization to be associated with modules and the organization/development namespace of the development organization to be associated with the official namespaces of the managed packages that are installed into subscriber environments.
Automatic namespace translation
On deployment, Illuminated Cloud automatically translates official namespace references on Apex classes, SObjects, and Visualforce custom components to the organization namespace. Source code files for multiple managed packages written locally against the official namespaces required to upload:
are seamlessly translated during deployment to a single development organization:
