IntelliJ Spring Web和Maven

Question

I am trying a create JEE spring web project (+spring security, mvc, web flow) and it will be a maven project with IntelliJ IDE.

I tried :

1) Create Project as "Spring",

2) Additional Libraries and frameworks : Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Web Flow. Web Application, Application Server, Hibernate. And click on Finish button.

3) After project created, right clicked and "Add frameworks support" and selected maven.

I have three questions :

1) Is this a right approach to create a spring web maven project with IntelliJ?

2) Project has a lib folder that has spring, hibernate jars etc. They are not included in pom.xml file as dependency. How can i make them as they defined in pom.xml file so these jars will be in "External Libraries" folder?

3) When i didn't select "Application Server" while creating a new project, I cannot add later, when the project is created using "Add frameworks support". Why?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Is this a right approach to create a spring web maven project with IntelliJ?

No, create a Maven (or Gradle ) project form starting point and then add dependencies through Maven (or Gradle ) dependency management system. Generally, managing dependencies through lib folders or System Wide Dependencies are NOT good ideas. Read more on

Project has a lib folder that has spring, hibernate jars etc. They are not included in pom.xml file as dependency. How can i make them as they defined in pom.xml file so these jars will be in "External Libraries" folder?

Delete all jar files and replace them with dependency section of pom.xml . You should find groupId , artifactId and version coordiantes of each one. For example, for spring-core module, you should add this to your <dependencies></dependencies> section:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
    <version>4.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency

When i didn't select "Application Server" while creating a new project, I cannot add later, when the project is created using "Add frameworks support". Why?

After creating project, you can add Application Servers or Servlet Containers through Run > Edit Configuration settings.