Intellij project creation notes

Jython is an ant project. This makes it a bit difficult to import into Intellij IDEA.

Prequisites

Software packages (outside Intellij)

• ant
• mercurial
• Java JDK
• Python 2.7

• Intellij IDEA 12 (http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/)

There is a free "Community Edition" of Intellij that might work (I'm only unsure about the Python integration). However as I (sven) use the Ultimate Edition, this tutorial is tested with this edition.

Intellij offers free IDEA licenses for Open Source projects. Perhaps it might be a good idea to apply for them.

Intellij Plugins

• Ant Support (Bundled)
• Eclipse Integration (Bundled)
• hg4idea (Bundled)
• Python (Custom, i.e. must be installed from Intellij plugin repository)

Of course there are many other useful plugins, but these four are essential for importing Jython into Intellij IDEA.

Steps

Make a clean checkout

   1 hg clone http://bitbucket.org/jython/jython jython

Remove Intellij files from jython

Change into the jython directory:

   1 cd jython

Remove files:

   1 rm -rf .idea/
   2 rm Jython27.iml

Run ant

Run this in the jython source directory (if you made the previous step, you're already there):

   1 ant

Import jython as Eclipse-Project in Intellij IDEA

Start Intellij IDEA. Close the last open project (if there's any), to get to the start screen.

Choose:

1. Import Project

2. Import project from external model --> Eclipse