IntellijIDEA not recognizing classes specified in Maven dependencies

Question

I have a project in IntellijIDEA which was created with Maven. I then specified a set of dependencies and external repositories in the Pom.xml file.

The project builds

Answer 1

The problem was caused for me by selecting the project directory to be Imported when first starting IntelliJ rather than the pom.xml file for the project.

Closing the problem project and then following the Import process again but choosing the pom.xml resulted in a fully working project in the IDE.