Public preview: HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ

The public preview of HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ is now available. It will be of interest mainly to HDInsight Spark developers.For users who are developing Spark applications on HDInsight, it can be very hard to get started building a first application, and the development cycle of Spark application from IDE is long and tedious.With this tool, new users can get started with HDInsight Spark in a few minutes. Experienced Spark developers can iterate their development cycle faster and easier. All users can enjoy the native support for the Scala and Java Spark application development experience because there is a tight integration with IntelliJ.This tool also provides the following abilities:

• View Spark clusters in your Azure subscriptions
• Navigate the associated storage account
• Develop your Spark applications with native authoring support from IntelliJ (mainly Scala and Java)
• Validate your Spark application locally
• Submit the Spark applications to the clusters and view the results with first-class integration with Azure

For more information, check out:

• Video: Introducing HDInsight Tools for IntelliJ for HDInsight Spark Development
• Documentation: Use HDInsight Tools Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA to create and submit Spark Scala applications (Linux)

If you have questions, feedback, comments, or bug reports, send email to hdivstool@microsoft.com.Thanks!