What is it? Integrated real-time and static CheckStyle scanning for IntelliJ IDEA 7 and 8.

What’s new in 3.0?

• CheckStyle 5.0 support (thanks to jicken)
• Per-module configuration support
• Severity filtering on result list.

Please note that you will need to reconfigure the plugin, due to changes in how we store configuration information. Annoying, but it was necessary to support multiple configuration files.

As always, you can find it in the IntelliJ Plugin repository. And please throw any bugs you find into the issue tracker.

The main reasons for this are threefold:

• A lot of open-source software is written to scratch an itch. That itch may not be quite the same as yours, and so it may be regarded as finished by the author.
• Support and bug-fixes are generally dull; certainly a lot less interested that writing something new.
• Polish is hard – it’s easy to build something rough and ready, and significantly harder to add the sparkle.

I’m first to admit I’m guilty of all points with regards to CheckStyle-IDEA.

This was written to scratch an itch – real-time scanning in IDEA. I have a CI server to do static scans, and my needs are simple with regards to plug-ins and the like. So I was happy with a fairly minimal feature set. Nevertheless, I did try to add more features to help others, and these are mostly where the bugs have crept in.

Unfortunately I gave into temptation and played with other things rather than fixing said bugs. And so, with the holiday upon us, I have done a little to whittle away at my laziness and released a bug-fix version: 2.3, with all reported issues fixed.

So, apologies for the tardiness, and I hope this solves most people’s issues with the current feature set!¹

¹ Of course, if not, please feel free to submit a patch!