How do I run an Eclipse launcher file in IntelliJ IDEA?

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algolicious picture algolicious · Mar 22, 2011 · Viewed 17k times · Source

I have a Eclipse .launch file that a developer has created to set up the classpath, vm and program arguments from a XML file that Eclipse uses to launch the program.

I want to be able to run this file in IntelliJ IDEA but is there an automatic way without manually creating the settings?

Answer

Jean-Michel Garcia picture Jean-Michel Garcia · Jun 6, 2013

Try the Eclipser plugin

http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin?pluginId=7153

Eclipser will automatically convert Eclipse launch configurations into IntelliJ IDEA configurations

However it currently (as of November 2014) supports only very limited number of launch types:

  • local Java application (...)
  • program launch (...)
  • Maven launcher (...)

See https://github.com/kukido/eclipser/wiki for details.

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