Intellij IDEA Plugin Internals

The Spoofax plugin for IntelliJ IDEA consists of two main parts: the IntelliJ IDEA plugin and the JPS build plugin. They are separate plugins that are run in separate processes and have separate Guice bindings, but since they share a lot of code they live in the same project.

• IntelliJ IDEA Plugin
• JPS Plugin
• Bindings
• Dependencies
• Logging
• Virtual File System
• Configurations
• Languages
• Lexing and Parsing
• Projects
• Troubleshooting

See also

• Bjorn Tipling — How to make an IntelliJ IDEA plugin in less than 30 minutes
• JetBrains — Custom Language Support Tutorial
• JetBrains — Writing Tests For Plugins
• Terence Parr — IntelliJ Plugin Development Notes