Remote compilation mode-Feature Request

Hello LB,

Here's a feature request. It would be very useful to be able to
compile and debug remotely, from a local IDEA environment.
This would be similar to:

http://bvrde.sourceforge.net/

This would provide significant hardware savings for remote
development, and beat the heck out of using X11 (which isn't
applicable to IDEA anyway) or VNC.

Particularly useful in a Mac/UNIX environment...

Could you please tell a bit more about your project, and why do you need
this feature? This feature is essential for C++ projects because C++ builds
take much longer than Java builds (because of #include usage), but for Java
builds the compile usually doesn't take long, so it doesn't make sense to
move this to a remote machine.

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Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"

Yes I would find this useful also.  I have been searching and implementing all kinds of workarounds / scripts to compile and run tests on a remote server from within IntelliJ IDEA without limited success, then I saw that CLion has full remote toolset available  and was hopeful that IDEA would also support this, but alas it does not appear to.

Why is this useful you ask for Java development ?  

1. Because not all Java projects are small and compile and more importantly test quickly.  My test executions can take 20+ minutes on a local laptop, and offloading this to a remote server would massively speed up development time.

2. When your Java application interfaces to binary native codes not available on your local machine and you wish to debug  tests that are executed against these.  Think of a Java application that uses JNI to talk to a native library on a RPi for instance. 

Hello Daren,

Please follow the related request on YouTrack: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-226455