Importing Apache Velocity in IntelliJ Idea

Question

I am using the IntelliJ IDEA on a mac and want to import Apache Velocity. In my pom.xml file:

<dependencies>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.velocity/velocity -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
        <artifactId>velocity</artifactId>
        <version>1.7</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

I am getting the error

Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.velocity:jar:1.7

Are there other settings that I need to add?

Can't reproduce. Please check the logs for errors, see http://stackoverflow.com/a/42427510/104891. — CrazyCoder, Aug 25 '17 at 09:34
Check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35105667/failed-to-read-artifact-descriptor-intellij — Ori Marko, Aug 28 '17 at 07:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 25 '17 at 15:34

It is a fresh install of Itellij Idea and I had to set the following:

IntelliJ Idea -> Preferences -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> 
Build Tools -> Maven -> Always update snapshots -> Apply -> Ok

Of course you can just download the jar file and import it as a module instead.

Importing Apache Velocity in IntelliJ Idea

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