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by paulmd 3757 days ago
I've used IntelliJ, ReSharper, and RubyMine, and all have been best-in-class products.

The only thing I can complain about is that IntelliJ's Maven support is atrocious. Maybe I'm missing something but I've played around quite a bit and I just can't make it search Maven Central's catalog properly. I literally have to drop back into Eclipse to add dependencies. It's OK given that you usually set up your dependencies once and are OK for a while, but it's definitely out of step with how perfect everything else is.
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navait 3757 days ago
At a startup I worked at, we had to switch back to eclipse from any IDE - netbeans, IDEA, emacs, vim because eclipse is the only one that can really get maven right.

The better question is, what is eclipse doing right that all the others can't?

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andrewaylett 3757 days ago
Whereas I really don't like Eclipse's requirement that you have an Eclipse plugin for each Maven plugin you use -- I have found it much easier to work with Maven projects using IDEA than with Eclipse, especially on a team where not everyone wants to understand what's going on.
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reitanqild 3757 days ago
Seems like you either had some seriously huge maven projects going on or how you possibly made Netbeans misbehave with Maven.

Me, I use the two day-to-day and never have issues, even not when I open all of the TomEE examples in addition to my normal projects.

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vbezhenar 3757 days ago
You have to download maven central index. Settings/Maven/Repositories, choose repository and click Update. It'll download huge file and then autocomplete will work.

Though honestly I never use this feature, I prefer to research library website or, if I'm looking for a latest version, use something like search.maven.org , it might not be the fastest way, but I'll be sure that I use correct version. Maven repository contains some outdated duplicates for popular library and it might not be obvious.

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paulmd 3755 days ago
I've done that - it still doesn't display properly.

Like I said, I've played around a bit with it in Netbeans and Eclipse and I'm familiar with the idea of downloading the index before I can search. I can't make it work properly in IntelliJ. Is there a Youtube video of an install->index->download workflow somewhere?

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