Develop better software fast with IntelliJ IDEAAbout This Book
- Tailor IntelliJ IDEA to your needs and to the demands of your projects
- Use IDEA's powerful software development tools to their fullest potential
- Explore IntelliJ IDEA's impressive and extensive features and functionalities for successful software development
Who This Book Is For
This book is for developers who want to work smarter so they can focus their efforts on the details that will give them the advantage. This book is tailor-made for developers who want to move from NetBeans and Eclipse to experience the power and functionality of IntelliJ IDEA.
What You Will Learn
- Tailor IntelliJ IDEA to your needs and to the demands of your projects
- Use IDEA's powerful software development tools to their fullest potential
- Explore IntelliJ IDEA's impressive and extensive features and functionalities for successful software development
- Set up a new project or import an existing one and run your project as standalone or using application servers
- Explore and use IntelliJ IDEA's features, such as Live Templates and smart code completion
- Create clean code that is solid and easy to maintain with refactoring tools
- Coordinate with other developers using powerful version control features
In Detail
Starting with a walkthrough of the main workspace, you will get up and running with IDEA from the word go. You will learn how to exploit IDEA's software development tools and use the various product features such as source code control, the debugger, and the many code generation tools.
You will then move on to advanced topics such as how IntelliJ helps in version control, managing change lists, viewing differences and changes, and reverting changes. You will also learn how IDEA can be used for agile development and web development, as well as its integration with frameworks such as Gradle.
Complete with tips and tricks, this book will make sure that you have an in-depth and extensive knowledge of informed programming.
Jaroslaw Krochmalski
Jaroslaw Krochmalski is a passionate software designer and developer who specializes in the financial business domain. He has over 12 years of experience in software development. He is a clean-code and software craftsmanship enthusiast. He is a Certified ScrumMaster and a fan of Agile. His professional interests include new technologies in web application development, design patterns, enterprise architecture, and integration patterns. He likes to experiment with NoSQL and cloud computing. Jaroslaw has been working with IDEA since its first release and has observed the IDE grow and mature. He has been designing and developing software professionally since 2000 and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 2002. In the past, he worked for companies such as Kredyt Bank (KBC) and Bank BPS on many large-scale projects such as international money orders, express payments, and collection systems. He currently works as a consultant for the Danish company 7N and writes software for the Nykredit bank. You can reach him via Twitter at @jkroch or by e-mail at jarek@finsys.pl.
