IntelliJ+Maven

I didn't know IntelliJ IDEA until last week, when I set up the develop environment for a project. But after using it for one week, I have to say it is an excellent tool for coding and source view.

Similar to ecllipse, IntelliJ IDEA has many plugins, such as Maven, Scala . But it integrates these plugins much better than ecllipse. For example, maven project can be imported and built easily as the video shows:

To debug the maven project, you need to install it firstly, which downloads the dependent libraries, compiles your project and installs it into your local maven repository. Then, you can set breakpoints in your source code, and start debug through IntelliJ's debug tool.

IntelliJ also supports source view well. Source insight is well known for viewing c and c++ code. But for java and scala, IntelliJ would be a better choice. It provides definition jumps, function list, folding etc..

Last but no least, Git is integrated as default.

I will update this page later when I learn new features of IntelliJ.