My IntelliJ IDEA Setup for Java Development // TRAIN BRAIN

My IntelliJ IDEA Setup for Java Development

I've been a Java developer for many years now, and I wanted to share my IntelliJ IDEA setup for it Java development after about 7 years of refining my setup.
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