@Nullable/@NotNull with IntelliJ IDEA, Maven & JSR 305

Question

I really like the code inspection functionalities which are now able with either JSR 305 or Jetbrains\' proprietary annotations for IntelliJ. Unfortunately both implementati

Answer 1

I'm late to the party, but for future readers this might be interesting.

As of IntelliJ 15.0.2, you may natively use other annotations than the JetBrains ones:

• go to the settings
• go to the Editor > Inspections tab
• go to Java > Probable Bugs > "@NotNull/@Nullable problems"
• at the end of the options panel (you might need to scroll), there is a Configure annotations button, leading to this dialog where you can select from a list of well-known annotations: