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IntelliJ IDEA Essentials

By : Jaroslaw Krochmalski
Book Image

IntelliJ IDEA Essentials

By: Jaroslaw Krochmalski

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
IntelliJ IDEA Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Deploying and publishing


If you created the project as an IDEA Platform Plugin project, the proper run/debug configuration should already be present in the Run/Debug Configurations drop down. Otherwise, if you decided to start from the Java project, you will need to define the run/debug configuration on your own. Refer to the Running your project section of Chapter 5, Make It Happen – Running Your Project, for information on how to create a runtime or debug configuration.

When developing plugins, the required profile type is Plugin, as shown here:

Running or debugging a configuration profile defined in this way will spawn a second instance of IntelliJ.

Tip

When running the plugin development run/debug configuration for the first time, a completely new instance of IntelliJ IDEA will be started, complete with its own set of settings. A few dialog boxes will pop up asking you to import settings or enter your license. Don't worry, it will not overwrite your base IntelliJ IDEA installation settings...