I followed Storm Starter instructions and imported Twitter Storm in IntelliJ. For sake of testing I edited ExclaimationToplogy a bit and used following Maven command to
From within IntelliJ, if you get Clojure related compiler errors involving LocalCluster
then .... do a mvn clean install -DskipTests from the command line on the same project first. Then do a 'Rebuild Project' from within IntelliJ. Life is full of mysteries :-).
You need to also ensure that the storm-core is not in provided
scope for storm-starter.