On May 28, 2004, at 4:12 AM, Eric Le Goff wrote:
I know I am off topic but as I am evaluating IntelliJ IDEA right now, I would like to know how to set it up for Geronimo Project
(multi-module project ?, setting Paths ? compile/run/ debug ?).
I could not find any answer at http://wiki.apache.org/geronimo/FrequentlyAskedQuestions as chapter 4.4.1 is empty ;)
Any tips & tricks ?
I recently switched to intellij 4. It took me a very long time to setup, but works pretty good now (I liked intellij3 better). Here is what I remember doing:
1) Build geronimo... this will cause maven to download the dependency jars and create the output directories.
2) Create your project... a multi-module project
3) Add each module under the modules and applications as a separate module. Also add spec/schema, but it is not necessary to add the rest as they should never change. Use the following src mappings (not all modules have these)
src/java --> target/classes
src/test --> target/test-classes
4) Now the really long part... for each module you need to add the libraries listed in the project.xml file. The libraries will be in your maven repository. I add them as global libraries. Also as you do this, setup the inner module dependencies. These are also listed in the project.xml file. This step does take forever.
5) Build in intellij... fix the setup bugs.... build.... fix.... build....
As for tips and tricks, make sure to setup the code formating. A big one is imports, use the following order:
java
javax
<blank line>
<all other imports>
We tend not to wrap. I like to force braces. I also setup templates to automatically add the license header, and a live template to easily declare a log entry. Oh under General options turn off the option "Synchronized files on frame activation"; Geronimo is huge and this can take a very long time (you will have to do this manually if you change files externally).
Good luck,
-dain
