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spring-framework/import-into-idea.md
Chris Beams 44a474a014 Various updates to support IDEA
Remove the 'final' modifier from SingletonBeanFactoryLocatorTests
to work around the "cannot extend final class" error issued when
running all tests. The error was due to confusion with IDEA between
the two variants of SingletonBeanFactoryLocatorTests across
spring-context and spring-beans.

Rename one of the GroovyMessenger classes to GroovyMessenger2.
Previously there were multiple Groovy classes named
'GroovyMessenger', causing a compilation error in certain IDE
arrangements.

Update import-into-idea.md documentation

Add various IDEA artifacts to .gitignore
 - ignore derby.log wherever it is written
 - ignore IDEA's test-output directory
 - ignore IDEA's Atlassian connector config file
2012-12-28 19:50:04 +01:00

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The following has been tested against Intellij IDEA 12.0

Steps

Within your locally cloned spring-framework working directory:

  1. Generate IDEA metadata with ./gradlew :spring-oxm:compileTestJava cleanIdea idea
  2. Import into IDEA as usual
  3. Set the Project JDK as appropriate
  4. Add git support
  5. Code away

Known issues

  1. spring-aspects does not compile out of the box due to references to aspect types unknown to IDEA. See http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-64446 for details. In the meantime, you may want to exclude spring-aspects from the overall project to avoid compilation errors.
  2. While all JUnit tests pass from the command line with Gradle, many will fail when run from IDEA. Resolving this is a work in progress. If attempting to run all JUnit tests from within IDEA, you will likely need to set the following VM options to avoid out of memory errors: -XX:MaxPermSize=2048m -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxHeapSize=2048m

Tips

In any case, please do not check in your own generated .iml, .ipr, or .iws files. You'll notice these files are already intentionally in .gitignore. The same policy goes for eclipse metadata.

FAQ

Q. What about IDEA's own Gradle support?

A. Keep an eye on http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-53476