IntelliJ IDEA: The Basics of Plugin Development for IntelliJ IDEA This article helps you to quickly understand the basics of plugin development for IntelliJ IDEA in order to start writing your own plugins. It describes general plugin design principles, descriptor syntax, and publishing. It also contains a plugin example with step-by-step instructions on how to create it. After reading the aricle, you can try a sample project with the plugin being developed in it: zip SampleProject.zip (242 Kb) You may need to set up the IntelliJ IDEA JDK as described in the first two steps of the section "Where to begin". in Public bookmarkswith intellijtutorial