Setting up new Mac book for Java Dev

Step 1: Install homebrew

http://brew.sh/

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

Step 2: Brew says to install latest XCode version

Step 3: Run Brew Doctor, Open XCode Agree to give away first born

Step 4: Setup JDK 7

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Step 5: Setup JAVA_HOME to point to JDK 7 in ~/.profile

  $ emacs .profile

.profile

  export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home

The .profile file is in your home directory. You want to have this setup so that maven and other utilities will not use JDK 1.6 which ships with some version of OSX. You want the utilities like maven to use JDK 1.7.

Step 6: Install maven

$ brew install maven

Step 7: Install git

$ brew install git

Step 8: Install github for Mac

http://mac.github.com/

Step 9: Install IntelliJ

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/

Find my license key

Also installed about half dozen other things with brew. I love me some brew.