We are pleased to announce the Maven IDEA Plugin 1.6 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/idea/

IDEA Plugin for Maven. 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Add a property for specifying generated source directories to include in 
  the module Fixes MPIDEA-10. Thanks to David Jencks. 
o Add maven.idea.jdkproperty so that the JDK can be explicitly specified if 
  it does not use the IDEA default Fixes MPIDEA-19. Thanks to Jose Peleteiro. 
o Generate a module for the multiproject itself Fixes MPIDEA-28. Thanks to 
  Geoffrey De Smet. 
o include maven project resources in module library Fixes MPIDEA-11. Thanks 
  to Geoffrey De Smet. 
o Add output path for libraries in web modules Fixes MPIDEA-18. Thanks to 
  Johann Reyes. 

  Fixed bugs:

o v4/module.jelly generates incorrect references to $MODULE_DIR$ Fixes 
  MPIDEA-15. Thanks to Geoffrey De Smet. 
o set module to JAVA_MODULE for compatibility with both 4.5 and Irida. Fixes 
  MPIDEA-17. 

  Changes:

o Use relative paths for projects and modules for projects easier to check 
  into SCM Fixes MPIDEA-25. 
o Make projects within the reactor set IDEA module dependencies, but keep all 
  others as JAR dependencies Fixes MPIDEA-7. Thanks to David Jencks. 
o Set source level properties based on the compile source level Fixes 
  MPIDEA-19. 
o Deployment descriptor for ejb.jar hard-coded Fixes MPIDEA-9. Thanks to 
  Eirik Bjorsnos. 
o idea:multiproject without idea:workspace so a local workspaces aren't lost 
  Fixes MPIDEA-26. Thanks to Geoffrey De Smet. 
o Add depencies on ejb or war modules Fixes MPIDEA-27. Thanks to Geoffrey De 
  Smet. 
o exclude build output directory in module Fixes MPIDEA-12. Thanks to Matthew 
  McGowan.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/,http://repo1.maven.org/maven
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-idea-plugin
  -Dversion=1.6

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-idea-plugin-1.6.jar


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Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven IDEA Plugin
should be submitted to the following issue tracking system:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPIDEA


Have fun!
-The Maven IDEA Plugin development team