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(I'm a beginner and I want to make "small" java projects).
I want to make IntelliJ run faster, so I want to cancel all the plugins that I'm not going to use.
The plugins:
1.build tools: Ant, Maven, Gradle.
2.version controls: CVS, Git, Github, hg4idea, subversion.
3.Test tools: Junits, TestNG-J, Coverage.
4.Swing: UI designer.
And others....
Thanks.
Its true that all plugins make IntelliJ start up slower, and many of them can make IntelliJ run slower. If you run with 30 plugins compared to zero - you'll notice the difference.
The best advice is to disable ALL plugins when you install IntelliJ.
Then, you can enable plugins one at a time as you need them.
Need source control? Great, enable Git plugin. Need Swing UI? Enable UI Designer... you get the idea.
Of those you listed, you probably need none of them except Maven and JUint and a version control plugin (git or svn or whatever is your cup of tea).
This really is a simple but good advice. For reference: I am a long time intellij user and plugin designer.
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I don't get why would anyone want to use tools like Gradle or Maven, I mean what do they even do? I tried to understand and use them but that got me no where they just unnecessarily complicate things and create a lot of what seems to be absolutely useless files.
So, why bother at all and use these tools and what are they good for?
First of all Gradle and Maven are great tools for managing your dependencies and also giving you the option to simplify your build process. Without these tools you would have to manually download *.jar files. And copy them somewhere in your project folder.
And if you want to update, you would have to open the website again, download it and replace your existing JAR.
Quite often JARs themself have dependencies, so you would have to manually download them as well.
I can understand that the setup of Maven / Gradle at first can be time consuming, but it's usually worth the time since you just have to declare: I need package com.example.package in version 1.2.3 and you just have to run a simple install command and they will take care of downloading everything needed.
Secondly, you can declare commands describing how to run your tests and they will usually take care of your tests not getting mixed up with your final and compiled package.
Also this is good for collaboration because once this config is shared, every developer can use it without going much of a hassle of configuring your development environment. Another good point is that it is independent of any IDE, so your project is not an IntelliJ or Eclipse project and everyone can use the IDE/editor they prefer.
Basically the idea is: You configure it once and then you can enjoy the automatism.
However, if your project is really small and relying on only a few dependencies you might not need it.
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I am programming a YouTube-Downloader, and I'd like to use the 2 libraries VGet and WGet, since no other library worked. How do I embed those into my project? I'm using IntelliJ 14.
As noted at the bottom on the pages of those two libraries, the libraries are available on Maven Central.
You could search on Maven for "com.github.axet", e.g. http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ccom.github.axet
Then you'll see the vget and wget libraries. By clicking on the latest version, you come to a page where there is also a jar-file to be downloaded.
But please be aware: Both libraries require additional libraries (e.g. some of the Apache commons libs), which you'll need as well. It is thus highly recommended, to use a dependency management tool like Maven, Ivy or Gradle for your project. I don't know IntelliJ that good, but at least Maven should be supported out of the box. Then all you have to do is specify that you want to use wget and vget, and libraries used by wget or vget will be automatically added to your classpath as well.
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I have looked in different places, but I am not REALLY sure as to what to use. I'll explain:
I'm self-teaching myself, with various books and tutorials. I use Eclipse with the ADT, but it seems now that Google is really pushing people to use AStudio (especially after its recent stable release). I have heard that AStudio has the following benefits:
Gradle Build
Improved Visual Editor
Improved code completion
Amongst many other benefits...
For starters, what are the benefits of AStudio put simply? (For example, what actually IS Gradle building?!)
However, for a novice like myself, would it be beneficial for me to switch to AStudio? (considering that I'm also trying to teach myself some CORE Java)
Sorry if this seems like a repetition, but I was just hoping to recieve information in terminology that I can understand...
Thanks!
Android Studio is the new IDE for developing Android apps. Google decided to change it, and so we must follow. I found an article that compares Eclipse and Studio for you: http://news.dice.com/2014/03/19/googles-android-studio-vs-eclipse-fits-needs/
You want to know what Gradle is?
Gradle can automate the building, testing, publishing, deployment and more of software packages or other types of projects such as generated static websites, generated documentation or anything else.For example, it is possible to simply add a Sonar connection, to check your code.
Also Gradle uses dependency management, which will make it a lot easier to add libraries to your projects, and sharing them with other developers.
Where Eclipse required to have a local copy of a library downloaded on your pc, gradle automates this. Add the library to your graddle file, and it will download the package for you.
Gradle will do this again when your project is transfered to another workstation. So no more cursing about libraries that were not sent to you.
Learning Java can still be done in Eclipse, or transfer to IntelliJ IDEA. AS is powered by IntelliJ, and has the same interface. IntelliJ and AS both get updates frequently, a lot more then what I saw with Eclipse.
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What i have done :
Created few projects using Java/ Selenium Webdriver/ TestNG using eclipse
Getting the TestNG test results in an XML/ HTML formats and looking for failures etc.,
What i can look for hereafter,
Do i need to use Maven(or likely tools), for managing projects, and why?
Do i need to look for Jenkins type of tools(But i know it depends on context, still if there will be any real usability with selenium webdriver)
Do i need to look for reporting tools(such as surefire) which is well equiped?
Or is it ok to continue with what i'm doing for a not so complicated project?
I know this qustion may be really broad, but i don't find anything solid to look after.
Appreciate your help, Thanks!
I think the world has agreed that Continuous Integration is good which is pretty rare for any technology.
I would definitely suggest setting up jenkins or equivalent and adding the maven configuration to be able to get your project to run and store results there. This may end up being more work because ideally you want to get the project you are testing to be built on check in and have its unit tests etc to run and then get deployed so you can run your selenium tests.
It shouldnt take too long to do depending on the ease of deployment of the app your testing, but even just having your tests being able to be kicked off automatically and its results stored will be handy and give you a real visibility boost of your tests.
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Aloha,
I am currently doing my Master thesis in writing an internal Web Application. I'm pretty much starting from scratch. Of course there are some requirements but those are not too important for my question.
Giving the case that there will be further development/maintenance when I'm finished with the thesis from 4-6 developers.
What I've done in previous projects/assignments was installing the Application Server (AS) by hand (setting it up etc.) on my developer machine.
What I've done as well is to use Maven to install and configure something like Jetty/Tomcat and the other developers just have to get the Maven project, run mvn install and their good to go.
But what will you do with an AS like Wildfly?
My Question would be is there any best practice for handling an AS in a team from 4-6 developers? (AS just on developer machines, not Devevelopment/Quality/Production systems)
You have 4 options if you considering the Wildfly as your AS
Include your modified standalone.xml inside your project, maybe in src/main/resources/ folder, every developer can pull it through Git or whatever VCS are you using.
You can create CLI script for a Wildfly and include it to your code base again. You can find some tutorial on the internet, for instance here. The advantage over XML is that you don't have to modify source manually, script can be executed as a batch which means it will either configure everything correctly or leave it intact.
Configure Wildfly through the Maven plugin. You can run there same commands as in option 2, some example can be seen here.
You can also upload a modified ZIP with your server to some location and make every developer use this version. Downside is that everybody will have to download this ZIP again if you make any modifications to the configuration.
So I think option number 3 is the best (because it's most automated and it's easiest to spread the configuration change among all developers) however your pom.xml can get really bloated with configuration. In this case, you can combine it with option number 2 so the Maven plugin will just ran the CLI script file from inside of your project.