When importing an eclipse based WSAD web project IDEA creates a Java Module instead of a web module. Its really not that hard to import it, there is a .websettings file which looks as follows. Also it would really be great if IDEA could import a WSAD project team set file (.psf) as well. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <websettings version="500"> <project-type>J2EE</project-type> <context-root>ws</context-root> <jsp-level>JSP 1.2</jsp-level> <features> <feature> <feature-id>WebProjectCSSFileFeature</feature-id> </feature> </features> <lib-modules> <lib-module> <jar>WSC_ClientSearch.jar</jar> <project>WSC_ClientSearch</project> </lib-module> <lib-module> <jar>WSS_ClientSearch.jar</jar> <project>WSS_ClientSearch</project> </lib-module> </lib-modules> <webcontent>WebContent</webcontent> </websettings>