Coding Apache NiFi Ecosystem: Part 1

Introduction

This is a series of articles about coding Apache NiFi in order to help new comers (like me) to understand this awesome project and development community. In this series we are going to study the Apache NiFi ecosystem from a coding perspective. The idea is learning step by step because of modify a huge code set like Apache NiFi is a complex endeavor.

First Step: The Build System

Probably one of the first steps in order to understand the project, it’s to analyze the build structure used in the project. The build structure is based on Apache Maven. This first article is focused in this building tool.

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Apache MiNiFi Debug in Intellij IDEA

Introduction

In this article is shown how to setup Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA for debug/develop Apache MiNiFi tool.

Jetbrains Intellij IDEA is a powerful IDE but sometimes is a little bit complicated of setting up, in particular when the upstream project doesn’t have clear instructions about the development using this kind of IDE’s.

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