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<h3>Introduction</h3>

<p>Backport175 comes with an IntelliJ IDEA Plugin. It has been tested on IDEA 4.5.</p>

<h3>Installing</h3>

<p>Get the latest version of the plugin from the <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/175/Downloads" data-linked-resource-id="19472" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Downloads" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Downloads</a> page.</p>

<p>Unzip it to your <em>IDEA_INSTALL/plugins/</em> folder so that it looks like<br />
IDEA_INSTALL/plugins/backport175/lib/*.jar</p>

<p>You will have to wait the next version of IDEA for the Plugin Manager to work.</p>

<h3>Features</h3>

<p>Once installed the plugin allow to add the <em>backport175</em> compiler to your module. Select your module within your IDEA project, and select the <em>Build &gt; Enable Backport175</em> in the menu to activate backport175 to this module only.</p>

<p>Activation is persisted in your <em>iws</em> file.</p>

<p>When you will build, the annotation will be compiled into the compiled class file just a the Java 5 compiler would do with Java 5 annoations.</p>

<p>Errors (like bad annotation syntax) are reported as compilation errors and will appear in the &quot;Problem&quot; view.<br />
You will have to fix them or IDEA cannot build succesfully your project.</p>

<p>Errors location are marked with a red @ icon.<br />
Successfully compiled are marked with a green @ icon.<br />
Ignored annotation (f.e. regular JavaDoc) are not marked at all.</p>

<h3>Configuration</h3>

<p>(since 1.0)<br />
If you are using an annotation.properties file, this one <em>must be</em> placed in your IDEA module root (hence you must have one per module), and named &quot;annotation.properties&quot;</p>

<h3>Disabling</h3>

<p>Select your module and select <em>Build &gt; Disable backport175</em> in the menu.</p>

<h3>Troubleshooting</h3>

<p>Logs is send to the IDEA log4J system.<br />
Turn it on with the following snip in your <em>IDEA_INSTALL/bin/log.xml</em> file:</p>
<table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" data-macro-default-parameter="xml" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGU6eG1sfQ&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre>
	&lt;category name="org.codehaus.backport175">
       		&lt;priority value="DEBUG"/>
       		&lt;appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
	&lt;/category>
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