Telling IntelliJ IDEA which methods not to identify as unused

You can tell IntelliJ to not to warn about used for any method/field annotated with the annotation the "unused" method has.

It should be a quick fix all you have to do is hit <Alt>+<Enter> and select Suppress for methods annotated by ...

You don't need to add anything to you code and you only have to do this once per annotation.

@SuppressWarnings("unused") should work.

@Peter Lawrey s solution did not help in my version of Intellij (14.1.1).

I used the hard way around:Settings-Editor->Inspections->Unused declarion Now there is an Options point, scroll down to Configure annotations... and you can add your annotation there.