Since you sounded wistful and I also prefer IntelliJ, I followed up. Success! (Mostly…)
I followed the steps in the second, longer post by Justin here:
And had to chase down the location of the jar that contained the plugin and KNIME classes; may have included more than necessary (this is not my forte).
In the end I added these Global Libraries as well as the ECLIPSE one he suggests:
Since I’m on Windows 10, I couldn’t use a Bash command to launch KNIME from within IntelliJ, so I created a run config that uses PowerShell to call the batch file he suggests creating:
And I’m now able to compile and run my custom node (PoolProxySocket_00) in IntelliJ!
Home again; very pleasant.
Just wish I could debug; couldn’t get that to work, though Justin could.
Amazing my blind thrashing got me this far–perhaps someone who knows what they’re doing might build on this and take us that final step!
Enjoy.