Alfresco + IntelliJ

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modestas

Hi,

Need advice of how to configure alfresco for development on IntelliJ.

By default if you install alfresco community edition it provides all needed jar`s for development (alfresco-4.2.f/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib), but does not provide src files.

So i have a question of how i should setup my working environment?  Maybe i should use a maven "way"?

Can you guys give me some advices/best practices of how to setup my working environment on IntelliJ.

Any comment is very welcome and appreciated!

respectfully,
Modestas

oleh

Are you using the community edition of IntelliJ IDEA or the ultimate?

In any case, Maven is the way to to. Have a look at Jeff Potts' tutorial here: http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/maven-sdk/tutorial/tutorial.html

This will allow you to run your customizations on top of an embedded Tomcat and it's really easy to use.

Create a new project with Maven and open it up in IDEA. Look for the "Maven projects" window, make sure to enable the "amp-to-war" profile. Create a run configuration that does

mvn integration-test‍

Make sure it activates the amp-to-war profile aswell. Also set some VM arguments so Alfresco has enough memory to run (also done from the run configuration). Set it to something like "-Xms256m -Xmx2g -XXermSize=300m"

It can be a bit tricky to get right, but you can create a really good development enviroment with IDEA.