@Nullable/@NotNull with IntelliJ IDEA, Maven & JSR 305

Question

I really like the code inspection functionalities which are now able with either JSR 305 or Jetbrains\' proprietary annotations for IntelliJ. Unfortunately both implementati

Answer 1

This has been made possible with the 10.5 of IntelliJ: http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2011/03/more-flexible-and-configurable-nullublenotnull-annotations/

Answer 2

As this question is IntelliJ specific it is perhaps best asked on an IntelliJ forum. You might find this thread interesting http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5262800. The downside of using Findbugs is that it doesn't provide code injection for runtime checks and JSR-305 doesn't appear likely to be approved anytime soon.

Answer 3

According to IntelliJ issue IDEA-64677:

• support for arbitrary @Nullable/@NotNull annotations should be available in IDEA 10.0.3
• there will probably some a manual configuration step(s) to enable support for the non-proprietary annotations (see Anna's comments on that page)

Answer 4

I'm late to the party, but for future readers this might be interesting.

As of IntelliJ 15.0.2, you may natively use other annotations than the JetBrains ones:

• go to the settings
• go to the Editor > Inspections tab
• go to Java > Probable Bugs > "@NotNull/@Nullable problems"
• at the end of the options panel (you might need to scroll), there is a Configure annotations button, leading to this dialog where you can select from a list of well-known annotations: