IntelliJ: use docker jvm or docker maven?

Question

I have a docker/jvm instance, which I use from the command line to compile and run java code. IntelliJ\'s project config requires me to point at a jvm on the filesystem.

Answer 1

Again, intellij seems to require a pointer to a filesystem location for maven, so this seems problematic.

The only way for an application to use another containerized one would be for that application itself to be in the same container (or to mount a data volume from another container, which avoids mounting the local filesystem)

So using something like dlsniper/docker-intellij/ (used for go, but easily adapted for java) would work, and allow an IntelliJ container to

• share the X11 socket in order to see the containerized application on the host desktop,
• uses data volumes (again, without mounting a local filesystem directly):
  • data-volume for the jvm
  • data-volume for the java sources