General availability: HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ

We're excited to announce the general availability of the HDInsight Tools plug-in for IntelliJ. For people who develop Java Spark applications on Azure HDInsight, the development cycle of a Spark application from the IDE can be long and tedious. With HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ, users can get started with Spark on HDInsight in just a few minutes. Experienced Spark developers can iterate their development cycle faster and easier. The plug-in extends IntelliJ to support the Spark job life cycle: create, author, debug, and finally submit the job to a Spark cluster on HDInsight. It integrates well with Azure so that users can navigate Spark clusters and view associated Azure storage accounts. To further boost productivity, the plug-in offers the capability to view Spark job history, display detailed job logs, and show the job output. You can install the plug-in by going to the IntelliJ repository and searching for **HDInsight**. If you've already installed the plug-in, IntelliJ will prompt you for the latest update. [](https://azurecomcdn.azureedge.net/mediahandler/acomblog/updates/ServiceUpdates/blog/b420695f-32db-4787-8d22-ad2f479f2ce2.png) For more information, check out the following links: * Video: [Introducing HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ for Spark Development](https://mix.office.com/watch/1nqkqjt5xonza) * Documentation: [Use HDInsight Tools plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA to create and submit Spark Scala applications (Linux)](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/hdinsight-apache-spark-intellij-tool-plugin/) * Announcements: [Azure blog](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/) and [Big Data blog](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuredatalake) If you have questions, feedback, comments, or bug reports, send email to [hdivstool@microsoft.com](mailto:hdivstool@microsoft.com). * HDInsight * Features * SDK and Tools * [ HDInsight](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/hdinsight/)