Maven - IntelliJ IDEA IDE Integration

IntelliJ IDEA has inbuild support for Maven. We're using IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 11.1 in this example.
Some of features of IntelliJ IDEA are listed below

• You can run Maven goals from IntelliJ IDEA.
• You can can view the output of Maven commands inside the IntelliJ IDEA using its own console.
• You can update maven dependencies within IDE.
• You can Launch Maven builds from within IntelliJ IDEA.
• IntelliJ IDEA does the dependency management automatically based on Maven's pom.xml.
• IntelliJ IDEA resolves Maven dependencies from its workspace without installing to local Maven repository (requires dependency project be in same workspace).
• IntelliJ IDEA automatic downloads required dependencies and sources from the remote Maven repositories.
• IntelliJ IDEA provides wizards for creating new Maven projects, pom.xml

Following example will help you to leverage benefits of integrating IntelliJ IDEA and Maven.

Create a new project in IntelliJ IDEA

We'll import Maven project using New Project Wizard.

• Open IntelliJ IDEA.
• Select File Menu > New Project Option.
• Select import project from existing model.

• Select Maven option

• Select Project location, where a project was created using Maven. We've create a Java Project consumerBanking.See Maven Creating Project to see how to create a project using Maven.

• Select Maven project to import.

• Enter name of the project and click finish.

Now, you can see the maven project in IntelliJ IDEA.Have a look at consumerBanking project external libraries.You can see that IntelliJ IDEA has added Maven dependencies to its build path under Maven section.

Build a maven project in IntelliJ IDEA

Now, Its time to build this project using capability of IntelliJ IDEA.

• Select consumerBanking project.
• Select Buid menu > Rebuild Project Option

You can see the output in IntelliJ IDEA Console

4:01:56 PM Compilation completed successfully

Run Application in IntelliJ IDEA

• Select consumerBanking project.
• Right click on App.java to open context menu.
• select Run App.main()

You will see the result in IntelliJ IDEA Console.

"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\bin\java"
-Didea.launcher.port=7533 
"-Didea.launcher.bin.path=
C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 11.1.2\bin"
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 
-classpath "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\charsets.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\deploy.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\javaws.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\jce.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\jsse.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\management-agent.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\plugin.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\resources.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\rt.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext\dnsns.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext\localedata.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext\sunjce_provider.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext\sunmscapi.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext\sunpkcs11.jar
C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\classes;
C:\Program Files\JetBrains\
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 11.1.2\lib\idea_rt.jar" 
com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain com.companyname.bank.App
Hello World!
Process finished with exit code 0