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Build tools importing process

Last modified: 11 February 2024

As a developer, you often use build tools to manage and organize your builds. The bigger the project is the more important build tools become for your work.

IntelliJ IDEA has its own native build system, or you can use an external build tool such as Maven, Gradle, Ant, Gant, or sbt (for the Scala plugin) to build and deploy your project.

The integration for the majority of the build tools that IntelliJ IDEA supports is bundled and enabled by default. The most popular and widely used build tools are Maven and Gradle with which IntelliJ IDEA provides full integration.

For more information on working with build tools, refer to the following sections: