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Cursive, the Clojure editor for IntelliJ released version 1.5.0 today. In this post I wanted to highlight a few big improvements that it brings to dependency management. Adding Dependencies The headlining feature in 1.5.0 is search and autocompletion for dependencies. Cursive provides this in two ways. If you’re editing dependencies in your project.clj file, Cursive will now provide code completion suggestions for artifacts and versions. The second way to add dependencies is to use the Generate command.

Historically, if you worked in a company that wanted to share JARs among projects without open sourcing them, then you needed to run a private Nexus or Archiva instance yourself. If that works for you, then great! But if you would prefer not to have to run that server, monitor it, secure it, and patch it, then Deps is for you. Deps is a new JAR hosting service for developers. It takes away the maintenance overhead of running a JAR server.