I use IntelliJ IDEA as my development environment, and Maven for dependency management. I frequently build my project structure (directories, poms, etc) outside of IDEA and then import the project into IDEA using Import project from external model
. This works great, except that in my poms I specify that the maven-compiler-plugin should use JDK 1.6, and when I import, IDEA informs me that the Language Level Changed
and that Language level changes will take effect on project reload
, and then prompts to reload the project. This is annoying because I always use the same JDK version.
How do I change the default JDK that IntelliJ IDEA uses, so that I don't have to reload my project every time I import a new project?
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I have found out that in recent versions of IntelliJ IDEA requires Java 1.8 but is not configured by default.
We can change the path or configure from Project Settings
> Project
> Project SDK
here we can edit or add the JDK´s path.
(in my case the path is located in C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_102
)
For latest version intellij, to set default jdk/sdk for new projects go to
Configure->Structure for New Projects -> Project Settings -> Project SDK
On my linux machine I use a script like this:
export IDEA_JDK=/opt/jdk14
/idea-IC/bin/idea.sh
The above responses were very useful, but after all settings, the project was running with the wrong version. Finally, I noticed that it can be also configured in the Dependencies window. Idea 2018.1.3 File -> Project Structure -> Modules -> Sources and Dependencies.
To change the JDK version of the Intellij-IDE himself:
Start the IDE -> Help -> Find Action
than type:
Switch Boot JDK
or (depend on your version)
Switch IDE boot JDK
File
\ Other Settings
\ Default Project Structure...
Project
tab, section Project language level
, choose level from dropdown list, this setting is default for all new project
.One other place worth checking: Look in the pom.xml for your project, if you are using Maven compiler plugin, at the source/target config and make sure it is the desired version of Java. I found that I had 1.7 in the following; I changed it to 1.8 and then everything compiled correctly in IntelliJ.
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
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