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For most developers, long gone are the days of programming in a good old text editor. Now has come the age of modern and flashy IDEs and yet Maven propose a basic command line-based tool? After all the money and time we invested into incorporating this tool in our development process! Are you insane? There is no way I can live one day without this great refactor menu. Relax, all the dirty work has already been done. Maven can collaborate elegantly with most IDEs and there is significant work in progress to integrate it directly in IDE's interface. Isn't that cool ?
This trail explains the basic of using Maven in conjunction with your favorite IDE. We suggest you to read all of the general lessons which are appropriate to any IDE users and then to proceed to the one's concerning your favorite tool.
- Maven's collaboration strategy :
- Dealing with Eclipse: For those of you living in a parallel universe, Eclipse is a great free open source IDE (well in fact it's more then that) oriented firstly toward Java development and is the dominant player in this software area.
- Dealing with JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA: IntelliJ IDEA is an excellent commercial Java IDE with a large group of supporters. It was the precursor of all this great "Refactor" stuff now offered by every good IDE.
- Dealing with NetBeans: NetBeans is like Eclipse a free open source IDE but developed by Sun which has gained momentum in the year.
- Dealing with Oracle JDeveloper:
- What! My favorite IDE is not supported :