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Tool to automate setup and update of development environment (esp. for Java projects).
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Cannot start Intellij since 2023.2.5 #1372

Open hohwille opened 7 months ago

hohwille commented 7 months ago

Expected behavior

As a devonfw-ide user, I want to be able to use the latest version of IntelliJ so that I can efficiently do Java coding.

Actual behavior

I just got an update to the latest IntelliJ version 2023.2.5. When I open it with devon intellij I get this popup: image As soon as I hit OK IntelliJ immediately closes down.

IMHO this is due to our workaround we build for the workspace management (see issue #1305) so we are fighting against windmills again and might have to find a totally new approach to tame IntelliJ. However, maybe this is just a stupid bug in the product and we need to report it to JetBrains to get it fixed...

When I directly run software/intellij/bin/idea64.exe and select the project workspace manually, all is working fine.

Steps to reproduce (bug) / Use Case of feature request (enhancement)

  1. devon intellij version set 2023.2.5
  2. devon intellij

Related/Dependent Issues

1305

1358

Comments/Hints:

Why must simple things always be so hard ;) We also always see that "latest is greatest" would in theory be a nice approach but the only way to get a reliable and stable IDE setup is by explicitly configuring product version up to the last digit. Due to security reasons we always wanted not to do that so developers get latest updates and security fixes. But as product vendors like Eclipse, JetBrains, etc. are pushing out new releases that break everything projects are forced to maintain the versions.

Affected version:

hohwille commented 7 months ago

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-339507/IntelliJ-stops-working-since-2023.2.5-if-IDEAPROPERTIES-is-set

hohwille commented 7 months ago

If IDEA_PROPERTIES is not set or no additional argument (workspace path) is given to idea the error does not occur.

jan-vcapgemini commented 6 months ago

I've tested this behavior with intellij community edition 2023.2.4 and 2023.2.5. I've used the plugins you've encountered issues with e.g. sonarlint, mapstruct, eclipseCodeFormatter, FolderCompact etc. Testing method was the following:

  1. Clear workspaces/main
  2. Change intellij version to previous version in conf/devon.properties
  3. Place mentioned plugins into plugins/intellij
  4. Run intellij using devon intellij
  5. Repeat from step 1 but switch to later version instead

I was not able to reproduce this issue using the community edition, so it seems that this only occurs with the ultimate edition. As we've found out that the issue only occurs for a pre-installed sonarlint plugin in the ultimate edition, it seems like this issue is way too special to address for now. We need to wait for other users to report similar issues

hohwille commented 1 month ago

Seems to only happen in ultimate edition with specific plugin combination so not a major blocker. Therefore lowered priority.