Building in IntelliJ IDEA

Building XWiki in IntelliJ IDEA

Install IntelliJ IDEA

• Download and Install IntelliJ IDEA.
• Setup IntelliJ IDEA so that it respects the code style of the XWiki project.

Get the source for XWiki

The source for XWiki is available via a Subversion repository. Check them out using your favorite Subversion client.

Create an IntelliJ IDEA project

Once you've checked out the modules you wish to work on, run mvn idea:clean idea:idea from the top level directory you've checked out (it has to contain a Maven2 pom.xml file).

Building XWiki

In IDEA's menu, click on Build > Make Project.

Some problems you may face

• org.suigeneris.jrcs.rcs package problems: IDEA will highlight and compilation may fail too depending on the version of IDEA you're using. The reason is because this package is called rcs which is a special name that is ignored by default by IntelliJ. Fix:
  • On old versions: File > Settings... > General > ignore files and folders : remove the rcs and RCS entries (you can safely remove this as xwiki does not use the rcs versioning system).
  • On more recent versions: File Types, then "Ignore Files and Folders" at the bottom. Remove "rcs" from the list.