java - Unable to load intellij module when using mvn idea:idea

Question

I am using: IntelliJ IDEA 11.1.3 (Community edition) and Maven 3.0.4.

The project contains several modules, one of them creates a war-file. When I use "mvn idea:idea" IntelliJ is unable to load this module for some reason. The error message is: "10:40:04 AM Error Loading Project: Cannot load module"

I can fix the problem by manually importing existing module, but this is a very annoying problem. Does anyone know why this happens, could it be a maven or intellij problem? Is it something I can do to fix it?

Answer 1

Just open the project by pointing to the pom.xml file. Skip the maven-idea-plugin, it is obsolete.

The maven-idea-plugin has not been active since 2008.