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Sean Horgan
Sean Horgan

Reputation: 118

Importing google app engine project from eclipse into intellij

I'm trying out intellij to see what it is like to develop/maintain google app engine projects. I've used the GAE plugin for eclipse for a couple of years and it usually worked flawlessly for me but I've heard a lot about intellij recently so I wanted to see what I was missing.

I've read many sites that describe step-by-step how to create new GAE projects in intellij but none that describe how to do so for existing projects. I'm struggling with I imagine is some intellij 101 topics. I have a few questions that I'm bundling together here:

  1. I added the Web/GAE facet to the project and specified the appropriate GAE SDK directory and appengine account info. What's the right way to associate the right SDK jars with my project?

  2. IntelliJ recognized my maven imports and added them to my External Libraries, things like apache commons, slf4j, etc. How do these jars make their way into the (exploded war) artifact I created for the project? Are they automatically copied there after a successful compile?

  3. I'm using JDO so I downloaded the DataNucleus plugin. How do I wire it up so it enhances my classes?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2136

Answers (1)

Peter Knego
Peter Knego

Reputation: 80330

  1. File - Project Structure - Modules - AppEngine: at the right side is "Path to AppEngine SDK install directory". Click button right to it to select dir via file selector. This is the right way - here Intellij will use all the needed jars in your project, no need to add GAE jars by hand .

  2. File - Project Structure - Artifacts: you should have a war artifact here. Create one if it's not there (+). Jars used in the project should be in "Available Elements" pane. You can add jars (if not added automatically) by drag-n-dropping them between panes. Yes, jars will be copied into war if they are in the left pane showing the contents of the package.

  3. File - Project Structure - Modules - AppEngine: check the "Run enhancer for the following classes.." and select your classes/packages.

Upvotes: 6

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