Developing a Spark application in IntelliJ IDEA with SBT

Before Eclipse became famous, IntelliJ IDEA was considered best of the breed in IDEs. IDEA has not shed its former glory yet and a lot of developers love IDEA. IDEA also has a community edition, which is free. IDEA provides native support for SBT, which makes it ideal for SBT and Scala development.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to develop a Spark application on IntelliJ IDEA with SBT:

  1. Add the sbt-idea plugin.
  2. Add to the global plugin file:
    $mkdir /home/hduser/.sbt/0.13/plugins
$echo addSbtPlugin("com.github.mpeltone" % "sbt-idea" % "1.6.0" )  > /home/hduser/.sbt/0.12/plugins/plugin.sbt

    Alternatively, you can add to your project as well:

    $cd <project-home>
$ echo addSbtPlugin("com.github.mpeltone" ...

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