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How to create a new Java EE project in Intellij 2020.2 without Gradle or Maven?


I started learning Java EE and everything was well. Today I updated my IntelliJ Ultimate version to 2020.2 and the menu to create a new project has changed. Before, it was like this

And now it is like that

The problem is that I can't find how to create a new project like before, with the choose of Application server and the libraries "Web Application".

Is it still possible or have I to downgrade?

Thank you very much and sorry if my question is stupid


Solution

  • It's no longer possible. The only option is to downgrade to 2020.1 version.

    The previous wizard was using obsolete technologies and frameworks with the libraries hosted on JetBrains servers always lagging updates and extremely hard to maintain. Now we moved to Gradle/Maven projects where all the dependencies can be fetched from the public servers and the project can use up-to-date Java EE and library versions.

    At the moment you can get the legacy project wizards back by adding javaee.legacy.project.wizard=true in Help | Edit Custom Properties and restarting the IDE.