Using IntelliJ IDEA

There is a wide range of IDEs for developing Java applications but currently the major players in the industry are Eclipse and IntelliJ. It is certain that there is a small margin of users with other IDEs as NetBeans, but according to the Java 2017 survey by Baeldung, 45.8% of users are now using IntelliJ, considering that Android Studio is based on IntelliJ IDEA and that JetBrains is the creator of IntelliJ and the Kotlin Language, we consider this an easy starting point for creating microservices in Kotlin.

Let's start with our generated project in the previous section and add some functionality to it. Meanwhile, to get to know the tool, if you haven't installed and setup IntelliJ, you can go back to the beginning of this chapter to learn how.