Orsine Assumpção - Getting started with IntelliJ IDEA

Hudson Orsine Assumpo is a Brazilian software engineer with a bachelors degree in Information Systems from Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros (Unimontes). He has experience in developing applications in Java EE and ActionScript 3. He also has practical knowledge in Data Warehouse, OLAP tools, and BPMN. He is a certified ITIL V3 foundation professional. Currently, he is developing, with a friend, a web-based ERP system using the Java EE platform.

I would like to first thank God, who is present all the days in my life, my family for their support, and a special thanks to my friend Rayldo, who encouraged me while writing this book and helped me organize my time in a way that I could do my job as well as write this book. Thanks to all friends in Packt Publishing; you really helped me organize and write the content of this book.

Scott Battaglia is a senior Software Development Engineer for Audible.com, the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information, currently focused on Android development. Prior to that, he was an Identity Management Architect and senior Application Developer with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He actively contributes to various open source projects, including Apereo Central Authentication Service and Inspektr, and has previously contributed to Spring Security, Apereo OpenRegistry, and Apereo uPortal. He has spoken at various conferences, including Jasig, EDUCAUSE, and Spring Forward, on topics such as CAS, Identity Management, Spring Security, and software development practices. Scott holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University and a joint Master of Business Administration and Master of Public HealthHealth Systems and Policydegree from Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and DentistrySchool of Public Health. Scott is on the advisory board for Blancos Kids, a group focused on providing public health services to extremely poor communities in the Dominican Republic. In his spare time, he enjoys photography, running marathons, learning new programming languages, and sponsoring random Kickstarter projects.

Tomasz Nurkiewicz is a Software Engineer with 7 years of experience, mostly developing backend with JVM languages. He is a Scala enthusiast. Presently, he is working on leveraging the power of functional programming in the global banking industry. Tomasz strongly believes in automated testing at every level. He claims that a functionality not tested automatically is not trustworthy and will eventually break.

He is always happy to implement monitoring and data visualization solutions and has reviewed the book Learning Highcharts, Packt Publishing in the past. He is a data analysis apprentice and a technical blogger (http://nurkiewicz.blogspot.com), speaker at conferences, and trainer. Most importantly, he has been a proud user of IntelliJ IDEA for many years.

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Preface

Developing codes that are correct in a fast manner is a difficult task, even for senior developers. In conjunction with the abilities of the developer, great tools are involved in providing a simple, flexible, and fast way of developing software. IntelliJ IDEA is one of the most powerful IDEs for Java developers, extending facilities you can find in common IDEs and providing features youve probably never seen before.

In this this book, you will learn how to extract the maximum from IntelliJ IDEA 12, beginning with understanding the basic concepts and applying features in real development challenges. You will see your development speed improve naturally and understand why IntelliJ IDEA is considered to be the smartest IDE in the world.

What this book covers

, Getting Started with IntelliJ IDEA 12 , presents some features in a superficial way. The intention here, is to show you the features you can expect in IntelliJ IDEA. The chapter begins by showing common features, then it shows you what is new in this version of the IDE. You will also see the differences between the Community Edition and Ultimate versions, and how to install and configure this software. At the end of the chapter is a section where you will see what you can expect in the future versions of IntelliJ IDEA.