From the course: IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition Essential Training
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Add external libraries to a project
From the course: IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition Essential Training
Add external libraries to a project
- Java-based applications make frequent use of external libraries. You can get to these libraries using contemporary repository management tools, known as Maven and Gradle, and I'll talk about those in a moment. But there's also an older style of integrating these libraries by going and getting a pre-compiled and archive JAR file, and downloading that JAR file and integrate it into your project. And I'm going to show you how to follow that process in IntelliJ IDEA. To follow along, you'll need a JAR file from some open source library. And I've downloaded this file named gson-2.8.6. Now if you want to find that file, you can search for gson in Google, and then you should get to the link right away, that'll take you to a GitHub repository. From there, scroll down to the bottom until you see the downloads section, click on Gson jar downloads. Then at the top, right click on the Downloads link, and you'll find the jar…
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