IntelliJ IDEA has in-built support for Maven. We are using IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 11.1 in this example.

Some of the features of IntelliJ IDEA are listed below −

• You can run Maven goals from IntelliJ IDEA.

• You 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 automatically downloads the 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 will 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 have created a Java Project consumerBanking. Go to ‘Creating Java Project” chapter, 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, it is 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 FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21binjava"
-Didea.launcher.port=7533 
"-Didea.launcher.bin.path=
C:Program FilesJetBrainsIntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 11.1.2bin"
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 
-classpath "C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibcharsets.jar;

C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibdeploy.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibjavaws.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibjce.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibjsse.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibmanagement-agent.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibplugin.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibresources.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibrt.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibextdnsns.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibextlocaledata.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibextsunjce_provider.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibextsunmscapi.jar;
C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_21jrelibextsunpkcs11.jar

C:MVNconsumerBankingtargetclasses;
C:Program FilesJetBrains
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 11.1.2libidea_rt.jar" 
com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain com.companyname.bank.App
Hello World!

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