Services Tool Window

Help Documentation	https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/using-services-tool-window.html
UI Guidelines	https://jetbrains.design/intellij/components/tool_window/

Existing Implementations

Type	Class	Notes
I	ServiceViewContributor	root interface
I	ServiceViewGroupingContributor	builds on top of ServiceViewContributor used as base interface for things that show trees
I	ServiceViewLazyContributor	??? empty interface. probably a hint that this uses lazy initialization or something to do with smart mode/dumbaware?
A	RemoteServersServiceViewContributor	parent class for most services represents a tree of servers or deployments provides an API to add/remove nodes, and set toolbar/popup actions
C	DefaultRemoteServersServiceViewContributor	good base class if you are not sure generic base class for remote servers
C	RunDashboardServiceViewContributor	can not be extended example ServiceViewGroupingContributor used to show the project's run configurations (grouped by type) New run configuration types are automatically added?

Recommendations

Package Layout

Internationalization

Reference

• Lazy

• https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/services-tool-window.html

• https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/13978d1a9fb5315133e0ec65ae70c2e03d532af6/platform/lang-api/src/com/intellij/execution/services

Plugins with Examples

• intellij-ngrok

• azure-tools-for-intellij

Extension Points

• com.intellij.serviceViewContributor