IntellijIDEA not recognizing classes specified in Maven dependencies

Question

I have a project in IntellijIDEA which was created with Maven. I then specified a set of dependencies and external repositories in the Pom.xml file.

The project builds

Answer 1

For some reason re-import did not do the trick. After looking at this:

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/maven-importing.html

I set auto-import and then the problem went away though; hopefully it helps someone else. Thanks for the ideas everyone :).