IDEA has never (iirc) had a problem with varargs. But in any case, if you do decide to go with varargs, it might be a good idea to have a varargs-less variation on the method for the no-options case (if it's common) to prevent the empty-array creation on every method invocation. Though now that I think about it, I don't remember if it makes a significant performance-wise... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4205941#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...