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Intellij Plugin Setup Instructions

STEP 1: Download Intellij Plugin

STEP 2: Install Intellij Plug-in

  • Requires Intellij 7 or later.
  • Unzip the Intellij plug-in download into INTELLIJ/plugins/ where INTELLIJ is the directory containing your Intellij installation.
  • Restart Intellij.
  • Verify that you see the CheckThread icon on the toolbar (see screenshot below).

STEP 3: Import CheckThread Annotations

  • The checkthread-annotations.jar file is located in the /lib directory of the plug-in you just installed. You can also download this annotation jar file separately.
  • Import the checkthread-annotations.jar file into your Java project so you can add annotations to your Java code.
  • Do not remove this jar file from your unzipped plug-in directory. You can copy this jar file somewhere else if you wish.

STEP 4: Enable CheckThread

  • Click on the CheckThread toggle button at the top of your toolbar (see screenshot below).
  • CheckThread will run and display results in a console window and error stripe.
  • Unclick the toolbar button to clear errors and rerun again.

The following is an Intellij screenshot showing the CheckThread plug-in enabled with a sample error being reported.

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