I just downloaded Intellij on a laptop and I imported a Maven project and the problem is that Intellij do not found any dependency in pom.xml. For example if I try to import hibernate-core or any other dependency I get the error: Dependency org.hibernate-core... not found. What should I do? Any feedback will be appreciated.
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3Are you able to run the command like mvn clean package from command line ? – Sambit Aug 16 '19 at 07:27
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2Run `mvn install` command. It will download all the dependencies. – Khalid Shah Aug 16 '19 at 07:31
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3Sometimes intellij idea do not refresh maven dependency on startup. To do so on the right side of idea there is docked panel with `Maven`. Just open it and click `refresh`. Should reload project and you should see difference. – Paweł Głowacz Aug 16 '19 at 08:01
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@Sambit Yes I'm able to run the command from command line – elvis Aug 16 '19 at 08:01
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1@Pawel If I try tu run refresh I get an error: Cannot resolve plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5.3 … 11:02 AM Error running 'refresh': Cannot run program "refresh" (in directory "D:\Projects\my-project"): CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified – elvis Aug 16 '19 at 08:07
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In case of Intellij Idea, make right click on pom.xml, select maven and then click to reimport. Find below the screenshot.

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11Looks like this option was replaced with `Reload project`, which solved the problem for me. Why we have to do this by default is beyond me -- extremely, extremely frustrating. – Hatefiend Feb 13 '21 at 12:19
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Doing the refresh for maven and gradle is unfortunately a way of life in Intellij. 2022 and this still isn't ironed out well. – Nopiforyou Jun 17 '22 at 16:02
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Doesn't work with 2022.2.3 IntelliJ is really buggy, bad quality IDE compared to VS Code, Eclipse etc – vikramvi Feb 25 '23 at 09:41
I solved this issue by running "mvn idea:idea" command. It resolved all module dependencies and also add it to classpath in intellij.

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Doesn't work with 2022.2.3 IntelliJ, running above command from project directory, it did download many libraries but still I couldn't get rid of basic errors in import. I doubt if project is referring to these downloads or not ? IntelliJ is really pain in doing these basic operations – vikramvi Feb 25 '23 at 09:46
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I can confirm on June 2023, it works. Sometimes maven --> reload works, sometimes this is needed. – nayakasu Jun 06 '23 at 13:25
It may also be worth checking which Maven your IDE is using. You can check it in settings:
We used to have issues with Maven bundled with IntelliJ.

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I helped. I had set up location of my maven directory. When I switched to `Bundled (maven 3)` option then it updated the libraries – Kacper Cichecki Jul 14 '22 at 16:47
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Doesn't work with 2022.2.3 IntelliJ, there is no Maven option seen under Build Tools. Not sure why does IntelliJ keep changing UI each release ? Most bad quality IDE – vikramvi Feb 25 '23 at 09:48
You could also go to File -> Settings -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Build Tools -> Maven -> Repositories and check that the local maven repository is set.
Same for File -> Settings -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Remote Jar Repositories where the remote maven repository should be set (something like https://repo1.maven.org/maven2)

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After "Maven" > "Reload project" an additional "Build" > "Rebuild project" (in IDEA window menu) was necessary to eliminate all "dependency ... not found" error messages in my case.

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