What is the difference between Findbugs-IDEA plugin and QAPlug plugin - Findbugs in IntellijJ IDEA

Question

When I look at links to intellij plugins, I see

• FindBugs - IDEA plugin
• QAPlug - Findbugs plugin

At the moment, I have installed QAPlug as it integrates with PMD, Checkstyle, etc. But I was curious to know what the differences are between the two.

Answer 1

The site I found useful is https://code.google.com/p/findbugs/wiki/IntellijFindBugsPlugins . It has a graph showing the difference between the three findbugs plugins that are commonly found in IntelliJ IDEA, and reads through some settings for each of them.

Answer 2

Findbugs-IDEA seems to have much more features than QAPlugs - FindBugs . One of these features is background scanning, which is very useful to me.