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:
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The Java Mac OSX Update for 1.6 is out and I have problems starting up Eclipse with that.

As a workaround I pinned the java vm for the Eclipse startup:

1. Show Package Contents for Eclipse.app
2. Edit Eclipse-Key in Contents/Info.plist

Everything is already documented there.

Now it looks like:

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