Not long ago, we announced the introduction of a brand new set of IDE plugins to support our customers with their application modernization journeys. The Application Modernization Accelerator Developer Tools (AMA Dev Tools for short) help developers easily and quickly modernize their enterprise Java applications to use a modern Java runtime, the latest enterprise Java APIs, and current Java SE versions. These IDE plugins and extension accompany our Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA), helping to reduce friction for developers modernizing Java applications by removing the need to context switch and providing useful insights and automations directly within their working environment (their IDE of choice).

Excitingly, AMA Dev Tools 1.0 is now available in IntelliJ IDEA (as well as Eclipse IDE and Visual Studio Code) and AMA Dev Tools 1.1 is now available in Eclipse IDE and Visual Studio Code.

To find out more about our tools and the new features available in 1.1, check out our community blog:
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/grace-jansen/2025/10/21/whats-new-in-our-ama-dev-tools