Intellij idea cannot resolve anything in maven

Question

I\'m new to Intellij Idea, i just import a project with pom.xml, but the ide didn\'t resolve anything in maven dependencies.

Anything defined in p

Answer 1

try maven command shared below it would work!

mvn idea:idea

Answer 2

Unfortunately I ran into the same issue and I was head scratching why this is happening. I almost tried everything on this page and but none worked for me.

So , I tried to go the root of this problem; and the problem was (Atleast for me) that I was trying to open a maven project but pom file was not identified. So right clicking on the pom file and choosing "add as maven project" and then right clicking on the project -> Maven -> Reimport did all the magic for me :)

Hopefully this can be helpful for someone.

Answer 3

In IntelliJ 12.1.4 I went through Settings --> Maven --> Importing and made sure the following was selected:

1. Import Maven projects automatically
2. Create IDEA modules for aggregator projects
3. Keep source...
4. Exclude build dir...
5. Use Maven output...
6. Generated souces folders: "detect automatically"
7. Phase to be...: "process-resources"
8. Automatically download: "sources" & "documentation"
9. Use Maven3 to import project
   • VM options for importer: -Xmx512m

This took me from having a lot of unresolved import statements to having everything resolved. I think the key here was using Maven3 to import project... Hopefully this helps.

Answer 4

I have just had this issue when adding <dependency>...</dependency> elements to a <profile>. I just found that if I add (insert) the unresolved dependency elements to the <dependencies> element, the dependencies are downloaded from the maven repository; I can then remove the dependency element from the dependencies element.

Answer 5

To me the problem what that I had to check the box "Import maven projects automatically" under Setting> Maven>Importing

Answer 6

Using default maven (which comes with IntelliJ) also could create this problem. So configure the maven which you have installed.

This can be done from: File -> Settings -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Maven

Update following settings according to your maven installation:

1. Maven home directory =
2. User settings file =
3. Local repository =