Jef Waumans: Hi, I had an issue with executing Maven targets from within IDEA. These targets execute fine from the maven console so I think there must be an IDEA issue here. I posted the problem on the Appfuse forum, here the link: http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=13740318&framed=y&skin=2369 ---------------------------- I use Appfuse for generating the application skeleton. Maybe you can just try executing the steps indicated here and you will have my project. The Archetype I used is the Spring MVC Basic. Thanks for trying.