How to view maven dependency hierarchy in IntelliJ

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I can see the dependency hierarchy in Eclipse.
How can I do it in IntelliJ?

Possible duplicate of [Can IntelliJ display a searchable maven dependency like Eclipse?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22001200/can-intellij-display-a-searchable-maven-dependency-like-eclipse) — Vadzim, Oct 03 '17 at 18:01

score 142 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 26 '19 at 05:41

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Allows you to see dependencies as a tree, see conflicts, search in them. It looks a lot like the Eclipse tooling.

Notice the Text and Dependency Analyzer tabs that appear at the bottom of the POM editor panel. Click the analyzer tab to see results as shown in this screenshot.

edited Mar 26 '19 at 05:41

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answered Jan 09 '17 at 11:13

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Not sure if this is new, but this functionality seems to be available in the built-in Maven Tool Window: https://imgur.com/NmvWcbJ – flow2k Jun 25 '19 at 22:08
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The plugin allows you to see where different versions come from which is quite useful when resolving the "dependency hell" of clashing transitive versions. I also like the searchable tree view a lot. – Ondrej Burkert Jun 26 '19 at 13:43
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This is the best plugin to have if you are working in jar hell :) The tree view and the means to exclude transitive dependencies is a god send. – Senthilkumar Gopal Jul 07 '19 at 23:29
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Does this plugin work with gradle as well? It would be magnificent in that case :) – George Fandango Jul 31 '19 at 06:50
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This is the only answer that is suitable for large project with a lot dependencies, should be accepted. This help to find out conflicts quickly & easily, other answer can't do that ! – Eric May 31 '20 at 09:12

score 97 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '15 at 02:46

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You can try: Menu -> View -> Tool Windows -> Maven Projects

And then you can see new view openned.

Open your Dependencies tree, and you can see all the dependency hierarchy.

answered Sep 08 '15 at 02:46

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But we can't filter and search for a particular dependency. There the plugin "https://plugins.jetbrains.com/idea_ce/plugin/7179-maven-helper" comes handy! – Mehul Parmar Nov 22 '21 at 06:49

score 64 · Answer 3 · edited May 22 '19 at 14:55

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Offical documentation: View Maven dependencies as a diagram

Open the pom.xml, right click anywhere in the editor and choose "Diagrams > Show Dependencies". It opens a dependency tree like those I'm attaching.

The main point is that this context menu appears only on opened pom.xml file (at least I couldn't managed to open it from anywhere else), if you just click on the file in the project tree, it won't be present.

Please note: You need to have UML Support and Maven Integration Extension enabled for this.

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BTW, this is provided by the UML Support plug-in – Dima Korobskiy Apr 13 '17 at 21:08
You can open the diagram using a hot-key or by clicking a (well-hidden) icon; see my answer below /salute – Jaroslav Záruba Jun 18 '17 at 00:42
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I dont't think so, as this depends on the UML plugin which is included in Ultimate edition only. – Ivaylo D. Ivanov Sep 15 '17 at 07:07
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My diagram has a bunch of blank boxes. If I mouse over them, I get the artifact id, but it's useless for a large project. – Kramer Jan 23 '18 at 18:50
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How is this better than the Maven Helper Plugin given in this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/41546730/6648326 ? – MasterJoe Sep 03 '18 at 23:02
@MasterJoe2 That is simple. It is not. – Meo Jun 17 '19 at 23:05
That works for my project's pom file, but not for the effective-pom.xml though. – Laguh Oct 09 '19 at 08:18
For large project with a lot dependencies, this simply doesn't work at all, you can see or navigate !!! – Eric May 31 '20 at 09:11

Jaroslav Záruba · Answer 4 · 2017-06-18T00:45:56.603

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Use the shortcut Luke! Ctrl + Alt + Shift + U

Or select View -> Tool Windows -> Maven Projects

...here you can either:

A) expand the Dependencies sub-tree,

or

B) select the project ("spring-boot" in my case), a new icon reveals itself

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 23 '19 at 19:47

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Select Module or Directory and then Analyze from main menu

answered Dec 23 '19 at 19:47

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 15 '19 at 17:42

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Menu -> View -> Tool Windows -> Maven Projects is impractical and must be collapsed one by one. I prefer the plujin mentioned by Basil Bourque in this post.

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score 2 · Answer 7 · edited Oct 22 '20 at 07:25

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I love this plugin Maven Helper, but for some reason it was crashing my IntelliJ:

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2.1 (Community Edition)
Build #IC-202.6948.69, built on August 25, 2020

I tried updating from the marketplace from within IntelliJ, but for some reason it didn't help. I managed to solve this by installing it from the plugin website Maven Helper by clicking on "Install to IDE".

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Here is the [plugin GitHub repo](https://github.com/krasa/MavenHelper) if you want to follow for updates or open issues. – atkuzmanov Oct 22 '20 at 07:26

Tatjana Kopalova · Answer 8 · 2018-12-18T08:44:10.530

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As mentioned @Ondrej Burkert the Maven Helper Plugin you can select the pom.xml file and if the editor is open there are two tabs at the bottom. First is 'Text' and second is 'Dependency Analyser'. In the tab 'Dependency Analyser' you have a tree of all dependencies like in eclipse.

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answered Dec 17 '18 at 09:40

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