Intellij idea cannot resolve anything in maven

Question

I'm new to Intellij Idea, i just import a project with pom.xml, but the ide didn't resolve anything in maven dependencies.

Anything defined in pom.xml dependencies when import in code raise an error cannot resolve symbol xxxxx

But mvn install will work, i try import the dependencies in Project Settings/Libraries in .jar files, then it works, but could the ide resolve libraries defined in pom.xml? i don't want to do that everytime.

Additionnal info:

IDEA version: 12.0.3, OS : windows 7, reimport does not work, maven version : 3.0.4, maven dependencies does not exists under Exernal Libraries.

there is no exceptions in idea.log...

Answer 1

I have encountered this problem，idea cannot download all dependent jar packages using maven,i just tried the following operations:

 mvn -U idea:idea

then all the dependent jar packages are download from the maven repository