Force Intellij IDEA to reread all maven dependencies

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How to force intellij idea to reread update all dependencies specified in the pom file

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If the reimport does not work  i e  doesn t remove old versions of dependencies after a pom update   there is one more chance    open the project settings  CTRL SHIFT ALT S  on modules  delete all libs that you want to reimport  e g  duplicates  IDEA will warn that some are still used  confirm Apply and select OK then reimport all maven projects

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run this command  mvn -U clean install

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Go to File   Settings   Build  Execution  Deployment   Build Tools   Maven Select  quot Always update snapshots quot

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In the latest IntelliJ IDEA version  2020 1 3 Ultimate Edition   You need to to click this little guy that appears on the top right of the editor window after you make a change to the pom xml This little guy is too small and in an unnoticeable position  I liked the previous versions where an alert shows up in the bottom right  Still can t find the option to enable auto import in this version

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If you work in IntelliJ  there are four independent ways to refresh maven repositories  Each of them refreshes another local repository on your computer or refreshes them differently  1  mvn -U clean install 2  Ctrl Shift A - Reimport 3  Round arrows in the Maven window  4  Ctrl Alt S   go to Build  Execution  Deployment   Build Tools   Maven   Repositories -choose rep - update  What is interesting  it is often said  that the last refresh is equal to the round arrows in the Maven window  But  according to my experience  they are absolutely different  The proof  Our large project fails the last refresh  but exists and runs happily without it  And double round arrows run OK on it  Each of these four can help you with your problems or and find problems of its own  For example  for running our real-life project only the first is necessary  but for testing in IntelliJ we also need 2 and 3  Surely  somebody needs 4  too   Why else IntelliJ has it

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I had a problem where IntelliJ was unable to compile classes  claiming that dependencies between projects were missing  Reimporting the project as suggested in the answers of this question didn t solve the problem  The solution for me  was    remove all projects  project tab   right click on the root folder   maven   remove projects   close the editor  compile all projects with maven on the command line  open the editor on the same project  add the projects to maven again  maven tab   add maven projects  green      choose the root pom     WARNING  on some projects  you might have to increment max memory for maven import  maven settings on maven tab   Importing   VM options for importer

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Press Ctrl Shift A to find actions  and input  reimport   you will find the  Reimport All Maven Projects     On a Mac  use     A instead

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Open the  Maven Projects  tab window and clicking the  Reimport All Maven Projects  in the upper left corner starts to reload all dependencies from their repositories  The status bar informs about the process    What lets you think that this is not working correctly  Maybe any of the dependencies can t be load from the repository

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The leftmost button  blue cycle  below also reimports all maven projects

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There is also one useful setting that tells IntelliJ to check for new versions of dependencies even if the version numbers didn t change  We had a local maven repository and a snapshot project that was updated a few times but the version numbers stood the same  The problem was that IntelliJ Maven didn t update this project because of the fixed version number   To enable checking for a changed dependency although the version number didn t change go to the  Maven Projects  tab  select  Maven settings  and there activate  Always update snapshots

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Setting   Maven   Always update snapshots

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For IntelliJ IDEA 14 0  Project    your project name    right click   Maven   Reimport

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If you are using version ranges for any dependencies  make sure that IntelliJ is using Maven 3 to import the project  You can find this setting in  Settings  gt  Maven  gt  Importing  gt  Use Maven3 to import project  Otherwise you may find that SNAPSHOT versions are not imported correctly

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To remove all dependencies you can simply delete your local maven repo     m2 folder by default  Then rebuild your projects one-by-one  mvn clean mvn package

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