Intellij is a full IDE for the Java programming language. It also includes built-in support for kotlin, kroovy, and android. Any questions regarding the IDE can be placed under this tag, along with other tags giving more information on what exactly your problem is.
Questions tagged [intellij]
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How is IntelliJ better than Eclipse?
I know there have been questions like What is your favorite editor/IDE?, but none of them have answered this question: Why spend the money on IntelliJ when Eclipse is free?
I'm personally a big IntelliJ fan, but I haven't really tried Eclipse. I've…
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How can I debug a JSP?
I'm trying to edit a JSP for a project and I'm getting a NullPointerException somewhere in the JSP when it's requested from my server.
My web server (JBoss) is reporting the exception, but it's giving me a bogus line number. It's reporting that the…
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How do you change how intellij auto formats code?
IntelliJ does some odd formatting with Javascript code and I am trying to figure out how to get it to stop formatting this way. Whenever I chain jQuery functions together, it over indents the auto created code such as…
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IntelliJ with Maven compilation
I have a project that needs Hibernate jars.
I added them as dependencies in the pom.xml and Maven compiles my project well.
However, in the IDE, all annotations and calls to Hibernate API are marked as unresolved (red).
How could I get IntelliJ…
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How to monitor & record build (compile/test) time?
I work on a large-ish Java project. We are using maven as our build tool, and I use Intellij (14) as my IDE.
Currently, if I build the whole project (c. 15 modules) it takes about 3 minutes. Due to the way that we use our code (even in development),…
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IDE Signatures & Identifying IDE Software
I'm trying to decide whether to change IDEs as I've read promising things about both NetBeans and IntelliJ, but I have two interrelated (perhaps dumb) questions:
Is there any difference in the final application produced by all 3 IDE's, assuming…
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Improving the Java development workflow
I will like to assist my group standardize to a reproducable Java tooling environment that aligns with some good practices to improve on our workflow. We are predominantly a .NET shop that has been doing quite a bit of Java development recently and…
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How to set up a Java project with unit tests, references and something like a VS .sln using IntelliJ
I do a lot of c# development work. Recently, our company decided it was important for webservices to be able to run on Unix machines, and decided that we should write new services in Java as a result. We've got licenses to IntelliJ, so I'll…
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Publish Modules from a Java Project on Github and integrate into IntelliJ
What is the best practice to work with several Java modules from different GitHub sources using IntelliJ?
This might be an odd qeustion but I do not know what the standard workflow is to achieve what I have in mind.
The current situation
I develop…
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How Jetbrain Phpstorm IDE is working without installed java?
As far as I know Jetbrains PHPStorm is programmed in Java but while I don't have Java installed in my Windows 7 PC, PHPstorm is installed and working without any problem.
How It's done?
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Using braces on new line convention, but should I do this for one-line methods?
I've been using the braces on a new line convention for my java project:
public String class()
{
something;
{
However I have quite a few methods, like getters, that could be written on one line like:
public String getOrderNo(){ return…
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