While working on JBoss Tattletale I was missing a Checkstyle 5.0 plugin in IDEA. The actual plugin is only capable of version 4.4.

I have patched the source code of today. You can download the plugin here.

It’s working with IntelliJ IDEA 8.1.2 (idea-9852). Can’t tell about other versions.

I have sent the patch to the corresponding authors. I’ll comment on this if it gets committed and when it is available through the plugin manager.

Installation instructions:

1. download the plugin
2. unzip it to your plugins folder
3. restart IDEA

This is what it looks like on OpenSolaris:

torben@gaia:~/.IntelliJIdea80/config/plugins$ l -R CheckStyle-IDEA
CheckStyle-IDEA:
total 5
drwx—— 3 torben staff 3 2009-05-21 15:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 torben staff 9 2009-05-21 15:59 ..
drwx—— 2 torben staff 9 2009-05-21 15:59 lib

CheckStyle-IDEA/lib:
total 2387
drwx—— 2 torben staff      9 2009-05-21 15:59 .
drwx—— 3 torben staff      3 2009-05-21 15:59 ..
-rw——- 1 torben staff 443432 2009-05-16 19:15 antlr.jar
-rw——- 1 torben staff 159033 2009-05-21 16:32 CheckStyle-IDEA.jar
-rw——- 1 torben staff 616230 2009-05-16 19:15 checkstyle.jar
-rw——- 1 torben staff 168760 2009-05-16 19:15 commons-beanutils-core.jar
-rw——- 1 torben staff  36174 2009-05-16 19:15 commons-cli.jar
-rw——- 1 torben staff  31605 2009-05-16 19:15 commons-logging.jar
-rw——- 1 torben staff 564061 2009-05-16 19:15 google-collect-snapshot.jar
torben@gaia:~/.IntelliJIdea80/config/plugins$