IntelliJ IDEA (hereafter referred as IntelliJ) is one of the powerful and most popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java. It is developed and maintained by JetBrains and available as community and ultimate edition. This feature rich IDE enables rapid development and helps in improving code quality.

This tutorial starts with basic introduction and slowly deep dives into its advance features. Logically tutorial is divided into 2 parts. Absolute beginners can start using it by following first 4 chapters. However to use it more effectively one can refer remaining chapters.

Audience

This tutorial is targeted for absolute beginners as well as moderate users. Absolute beginners will get fair understanding about IntelliJ and moderate users will take their existing knowledge to next level.

Prerequisites

This tutorial assumes preliminary knowledge of software development process and Java programming language. Additionally reader should have basic understanding of computer system. Reader should be able to install, uninstall and configure software packages on his/her system.

Later sections of tutorial discuss integration with build tools, unit testing frameworks, debugger, profiling, version control system and database. It is assumed that those tools are installed and configured on system and reader is familiar with those tools.