Cannot add framework support in IntelliJ 14 Ultimate

Question

I found a pretty old post with this question but unfortunately he didn't get any help. I hope someone can assist me.

I created a repo at GitHub. After cloning it to my computer I tried to add the following framework support: Maven, JSF, EJB, CDI, etc. I know I could add the files manually. But, I want to use what the IDE has to offer.

However, the only framework showing up is SQL, which is different from this post from stackoverflow and from their documentation. Has anyone had this same problem and got it working?

Answer 1

Intellij reacts to changes in your Maven pom.xml file. Maven does not react to changes in your IntelliJ project module settings.

The steps that you should follow here are

1. Close IntelliJ
2. In a command shell, clone your Github repository.
3. Using an editor external to IntelliJ such as VI or Notepad, create a pom.xml in the root directory. Better yet, use a Maven Archetype to generate your pom.xml.
4. Now open IntelliJ. Choose File, New, Project From Existing Sources. Navigate to your pom.xml and follow the prompts.
5. I recommend checking Search for projects recursively and Import Maven projects automatically.
6. Finish the project creation.
7. Now, add dependencies to your pom.xml via the dependencies tag. See Maven Dependencies. Intellij will automatically react to dependencies that you add as long as it can see a Maven Repository on your local machine or on your network or on the Internet.

Answer 2

I know it is a little bit to late but I just post it because it is still an possible issue: You need to open YourProjectName.iml and make sure that the type (<module type="JAVA_MODULE" version="4">) is JAVA_MODULE and not something else!(In my case it was WEB_MODULE)