IntelliJ IDE

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

Java Frameworks

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

Build Tools

All of them!

Web development

IntelliJ Web Frameworks

All but:

• HAML
• Flash/Flex

Version control - GitHub - Subversion - Git

Test tools

IntelliJ test tools

• jUnit
• TestNG-j
• Coverage

Application servers

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

Cloud ... enable if you use it

Swing ... disable

Android ... enable if you use it

Other tools (all)

Plugin development ... disable

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