Thank you Dain for this very useful reply.
Is there any reason I should not use the maven idea:module target ?
4) Now the really long part... for each module you need to add the libraries listed in the project.xml file. The libraries will be in your maven repository. I add them as global libraries. Also as you do this, setup the inner module dependencies. These are also listed in the project.xml file. This step does take forever.
It seems this target is able to build *.iml when you visit a directory containg a project.xml file
Regards Eric
