How to configure Spring facet in IntelliJ IDEA

Question

I'm new to Intellij 14.0 . I was using Netbeans, but my colleagues told me to shift to intellij and so I did.

I need to run the same project that I ran on netbeans in Intellij. The project that I'm working on is made of grails and spring. When I tried to run the project using Intellij this is what I get.

Spring Configuration Check Unmapped Spring configuration files found. Please configure/setup Spring facet for modules: ......... (1 file)

And this is the file.

applicationContext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

    <bean id="grailsApplication" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsApplicationFactoryBean">
        <description>Grails application factory bean</description>
        <property name="grailsDescriptor" value="/WEB-INF/grails.xml" />
        <property name="grailsResourceLoader" ref="grailsResourceLoader" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="pluginManager" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.GrailsPluginManagerFactoryBean">
        <description>A bean that manages Grails plugins</description>
        <property name="grailsDescriptor" value="/WEB-INF/grails.xml" />
        <property name="application" ref="grailsApplication" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="grailsConfigurator" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.spring.GrailsRuntimeConfigurator">
        <constructor-arg>
            <ref bean="grailsApplication" />
        </constructor-arg>
        <property name="pluginManager" ref="pluginManager" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="grailsResourceLoader" class="org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsResourceLoaderFactoryBean" />

    <bean id="characterEncodingFilter" class="org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter">
        <property name="encoding">
            <value>utf-8</value>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.context.support.ConversionServiceFactoryBean" />
</beans>

Honestly, I dont have any idea how to fix it. Based on my understanding it is looking for some modules but I could not fix it. I even tried this "Add framework support" . But I couldn't find spring in the list.

Could you help me fix this? Thanks

Answer 1

Go to File/Project Structure/Modules, click the green plus icon, select Spring from the dropdown and select your module in the next dialog.

Then click the green plus in the right pane, click plus and select your Spring configuration files and classes and click OK.

Also take a look at IntelliJ Help for Spring Facet.