

: .ProcessNotCreatedException: Cannot run program “/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java” (in directory “/Users/samir/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea2017.3/compile-server”): error=2, No such file or directory While working in IntelliJ, you can access the IDE log files to view additional details on the error - Help Menu -> Show Log in Finder Even though the fix was simple, I wanted to document this so that others bumping into the same error can quickly proceed, without getting stuck.

However while building the project, I bumped into an unexpected error -Įrror:Cannot run program “/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java” (in directory “/Users/samir/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea2017.3/compile-server”): error=2, No such file or directoryīeing new to the IDE, it took me some time to figure out the root cause of this error. Researching over internet, I was quite impressed with the features provided by RedGate’s IntelliJ IDEA – hence I downloaded it and wanted to quickly spin up a Hello World application.

The most popular JAVA IDEs are NetBeans, Eclipse, Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA. For developing applications in JAVA, most developers typically use an Integrated Development Environment to leverage built-in features to improve productivity.
