How to create multi-project structure in Intellij IDEA like Visual Studio

Question

I am basically from windows development background and used visual studio very much. Recently, I am asked to worked on Java and I find Intellij IDEA community edition. I have one question, like how can I create multiple project in one solution? where we just build the top level solution and all sub-project builds automatically?

Any idea or tutorial in this case would be really helpful.

Answer 1

You can add multiple Maven or Gradle projects to your IntelliJ-Projects by using the plus-button in the Maven/Gradle Projects toolbar. This opens a file browser that allows you to choose an additional .pom/.gradle file to add a project.

Afterwards you can create Build-Actions that build both projects at the same time using Maven or Gradle. Or you build everything using the IntelliJ build (Menu -> Build -> Make Project).

Having said that, kardans solution works just as well and should always be preferred if you want to build all projects using the command line or continuous integration.