Hi Lukman, Based on your requirements, I would say that this probably would meet the criteria for #1, "a solution either to an advanced engineering problem at the time of writing a thesis" - It is a fairly complicated task, but certainly achievable. George will be your primary point of contact for the next 2 weeks. (I am on vacation at the moment.) We have a "starter project" for IntelliJ integration here: https://github.com/forge/intellij-idea-plugin To get started, I would first look at these guides: https://github.com/forge/core#jboss-forge-20 https://github.com/forge/jbosstools-forge#the-forge-tools-project https://github.com/forge/furnace#furnace This should give you an overview of the forge design and architecture. And an example of our Eclipse integration, to which your IntelliJ integration will likely be similar. Also please join the #forge channel on irc.freenode.net chat. This is where we have most discussions during the day (monday-friday, and sometimes on weekends). But it is of course always a good idea to email forge-dev if nobody is around on IRC. Forge-dev is also good for discussing topics that are more complicated, and more people might want to join in :) Cheers! Talk to you soon, Lincoln PS. How did you find out about our project? On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Lukman Oladimeji Adekunle <adekunle(a)ut.ee&gt;wrote: -- Lincoln Baxter, III http://ocpsoft.org "Simpler is better."