When you use "import", you are presented with a series of dialogs to set various options (for both maven and the project). When you just open the pom file, you do not get those dialogs. IDEA just uses the defaults. (You can always go into the settings later and change them.)
When you use "import", you are presented with a series of dialogs to set various options (for both maven and the project). When you just open the pom file, you do not get those dialogs. IDEA just uses the defaults. (You can always go into the settings later and change them.)