IntelliJ IDE

This page explains how to setup the IntelliJ IDE ultimate edition.

All the settings that follows will be apply globally.

Requirements

IntelliJ requires a Java JDK to work, see Java JDK setup.

Installation

Get binaries

Download IDEA IntelliJ from the official website: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

Take the IntelliJ Ultimate Edition version.

Linux

• Download the IdeaU-xxx.tar.gz' package
• Copy the package into your dev directory
• Launch the application

tar -xzvf IdeaU-xxx.tar.gz
cd Idea-IU-xxx/bin
./idea.sh &

First launch configuration

During first launch you'll be ask a bunch of questions. The first are easy, then you'll to configure your environment. Here are my settings:

Tune your IDEA

Global points:

• Build tools  : enable ALL
• Cloud  : only if required
• Swing  : DISABLE
• Android  : only if required
• Plugin development : DISABLE

Java Frameworks

• J2EE
• Hibernate
• Grails
• GWT
• Spring
• AspectJ

Web development

All but:

• HAML
• Flash/Flex

Version control

At least enable:

• GitHub
• Subversion
• Git

Test tools

• jUnit
• TestNG-j
• Coverage

Application servers

• Application servers view
• jBoss
• Tomcat and TomEE
• Glassfish
• JSR45 (=== JSPs)

Featured plugins

If you want to do some web development, then you should really install nodeJs and Live Edit Tool!

Configuration

You can access the configuration from the launcher screen: Configuration → Settings.

Settings

IDE settings

Settings → Editor → General

• Change font size (Zoom) with Ctrl+mouse wheel

Settings → Editor → Appearance

• Show line numbers
• Show breadcumbs for XML files

Settings → Editor → Editor tabs

• Mark modified tabs with aterisk

Imports

Settings → Editor → Auto import

• Enable: Optimize import on the fly
• Enable: Add unambiguous imports on the fly

Maven settings

Settings → Build, Execution, Deployment → Maven

• Force check of snapshots
• Set Maven home directory
• Set Maven settings file

Settings → Build, Execution, Deployment → Maven → Importing

• Import Maven projects automatically
• Create module groups for multi-module Maven projects
• Download sources and documentation (optional)

Gradle settings

Settings → Build, Execution, Deployment → Gradle

• Set the service directory path

Application servers

Adjust your Application Servers path and settings.

Tomcat

0. Download Tomcat from the official website: http://tomcat.apache.org/

1. Enable tomcat plugin

• Settings → Plugins
• Search for tomcat
• Enable the plugin

2. Register server

• Settings → Build, Execution, Deployment → Application servers
• Click on the '+'
• Add a new Tomcat Server

• Fill up the form
• The new server should appears

Languages & frameworks

Set your JavaFX scene builder home.

As a reminder, you can download scene builder from Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/javafxscenebuilder-info-2157684.html

3rd party Plugins

Plugins list

You should manually install the following plugins:

• Code quality (inspection)
  • CodeMetrics : to know the cyclomatic complexity of each method. A must have
  • SonarLint + SonarQube Community plugin : to see the alerts inside IntelliJ
  • Code smell detector : to have alerts about bad / suspicious practices
  • Checkstyle-IDEA : to have the Checkstyle rules
  • Findbugs-IDEA : to have the FindBugs rules
  • PMDPlugin : to have the PMD rules
• Utilities
  • Maven helper : to view the maven dependencies graph
  • PlanUML: for UML diagrams (sequences, states, use-cases, etc.)
• Being efficient
  • Rainbow brackets
  • Lombok
  • Key promoter X
  • Save actions
  • Alibaba Java Coding Guidelines

See Alibaba coding guidelines: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10046-alibaba-java-coding-guidelines/

Configuration

Some plugins must be enabled.

• Go to File > Settings > Other settings
  • Checkstyle
    • Set scan scope to "Only java sources (including tests)"
    • Enable the "Google checks"
  • FindBugs-IDEA
    • Add plugins: "fb-contrib plugin" + "Find Security Bugs"
  • SonarLint General Settings
    • Register sonarQube server. (i) to generate a Token go to "SonarQube" > login > My account > security
  • SonarLint Project settings
    • Select the new server
    • Select the SonarQube project
  • SonarQube
    • Add Sonar server

Fonts

https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts/releases

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51390317/get-intellij-dejavu-sans-mono-font-on-windows-10