TODO: Improve this documentation 

Start here if you are setting up a brand new development environment, or want to reconfigure your environment from scratch.

The instructions below assume you already have available:

• A recent version of IntelliJ. These steps have been validated on IntelliJ 2018.1.6

• JDK 1.8 installed and configured in IntelliJ

• A local git clone of the apache/beam repository in your home directory ("~/beam")

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You may also want to setup a specialized environment for the Beam modules you're working on:

TODO: Improve this documentation 

Previous documentation

The documentation below needs to be rechecked and reorganized. This is a work-in-progress. 

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