Projects

• Open existing maven2 projects without any imports or synchronizations
• An IDE project type directly based on maven2 POM.
• Run maven builds from the UI.
• Project dependencies resolved dynamically based on currently opened projects
• Create new projects from archetypes (Standard and Web Application, Mojo plugin)

  Select which archetype

  
• Show hierarchy between projects

  Module graph :

  
• Show compile/runtime/test dependencies, both direct and transitive

  Project Layout :

  

  We use the maven embedder to retrieve information about the project. There are a few outstanding issues on the embedder side:

• [MNG-1117]Writing the pom doesn't preserver formatting . No project updating from the UI yet.
• [MNG-1118]Not possible to handle failed artifact resolution from IDE.

  Please vote for these issues, thanks.

Editor completion

The schema based code completions are available for POM files, settings files, assembly descriptors and netbeans module descriptors. Apart from the static completion, a few dynamic helpers are also available.

• List of possible modules.
• Plugin execution goals and phases.
• Plugin configuration parameter names.

  Completion for configuration :

  
• Dependency scope values
• Available versions for dependencies and plugins

  Which version is available :

  
• For assembly descriptors,

  Suggest excludes/includes based on dependencies in the POM :

  

Hyperlinking

The Maven POM file contains a lot of useful information but it's not always ready at hand. Why not have the URLs hyperlinked? It is possible with Netbeans.

• URLs :

  Pressing Ctrl with a cursor over http/https url, shows a hyperlink which opens a new browser window or tab with the specified url.

  
• Modules :

  The modules section of the pom can also turned into hyperlinks.

  
• Configuration files :

  Permits to open in the editor other configuration files

  

  Any other places where hyperlinks could be useful in the POM?

Dependency management

• Download javadoc and sources for projects dependencies
• Add/Remove/Exclude dependencies

  Remove a provided project dependency

  

  Exclude a transitive inherited dependency

  
• Locally install artifact

  It is possible to install manually jars or other artifacts in the maven local repository.

  
• Show dependency graph

Continuum

Apache Continuum is a continuous integration server, the Mevenide support is able to connect to these servers through the XML-RPC interface.

• Configurable list of servers
• Listing of defined projects on the server
• Information about build states
• Can Force a rebuild of a given project