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Maven has a great feature that will allow you to build up your IDEA or Eclipse project files based on the project build structure. Using the Maven project files helps keep developers in-sync and efficient. The IDEA project files are pre-configured to define in the Run/Debug menu many common tasks, such as "execute all tests", "launch the showcase sample app", and so fort.

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The Maven IDEA plugin creates IDEA project and modules files, based on the Maven build configuraton (pom.xml).

First, be sure you have the latest IDEA plugin for Maven.

mvn -DconnectionUrl=scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugins/trunk/maven-idea-plugin \
    -Dgoals=install \
    scm:bootstrap

Aside from running phases, Maven Most often, we use Maven to build projects, but it can also run plugins , and you can even specify phases and plugins as a single commanddirectly. To just build the an IDEA project file for Struts 2, including all the profiles are optional, but it can be a good idea to use them anyway.modules, run

> mvn idea:idea -PthirdpartyPapps,extras,thirdparty,xwork idea:idea

Maven will generate projectstruts-parent.ipr, projectstruts-parent.iws, and an iml file for each module in the build. listed Open up projectstruts-parent.ipr in IDEA, and you shuold should be good to go.

If you ever need to rebuild your projects, running the idea:idea command again will update your files without overriding any information that doesn't conflict. If you do want to overwrite the project files, specify the overwrite parameter as true.

> mvn idea:idea -Doverwrite=true -Pextras,xwork idea:ideaPapps,extras,thirdparty,xwork

If you only need to rebuild some of the modules, adjust the list of "profiles". 

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