How can I find the Maven dependency that is responsible for a specific class in IntelliJ?

Question

In IntelliJ I am trying to retrieve the Maven dependency that is responsible of providing a specific class (or an entire JAR).

How can I do that?

@CrazyCoder What if we use an internal Maven Repository where we can't search from an UI? — Andrea Bergonzo, Jul 04 '17 at 10:56
Use https://github.com/javalite/jar-explorer or a shell script: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1500307/104891. — CrazyCoder, Jul 04 '17 at 12:43
@AndreaBergonzo Which internal Maven Repository cannot be searched through UI? Nexus and Artifactory offer UIs. — J Fabian Meier, Jul 04 '17 at 14:19
@JFMeier I expressed myself wrong. We use Nexus but it does't support Class Name search but only Artifact search. So no way to do that from IntelliJ or Nexus? — Andrea Bergonzo, Jul 04 '17 at 15:35
@CrazyCoder It should work. I was looking for something in the IDE but if there is no other way to do that... — Andrea Bergonzo, Jul 04 '17 at 15:36
@AndreaBergonzo Nexus 2.x supports classname search. I don't know whether this was reimplemented in Nexus 3.x — J Fabian Meier, Jul 05 '17 at 06:41
@JFMeier "There is no support for class name search in Nexus 3." https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43865483/classname-search-in-nexus-3 — Andrea Bergonzo, Jul 05 '17 at 10:44

Ryan Dawson · Answer 1 · 2018-12-06T11:09:22.423

Since you are talking about dependencies which aren't coming from maven central you can't use the advanced search feature on central search as has been suggested elsewhere and you indicate in your comments that your nexus also doesn't support searching by class name. Another option is that IntelliJ can tell you where a class file used in your project comes from using the feature to open a class. This is ⌘O on a mac. In IntelliJ 2017.1 it looks like:

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