This guide is targeted to Netbeans (4.1, 5.0) users that want to use Maven projects in their IDE.

The guide covers the following areas :

• Creating new Maven projects
• Open existing Maven projects
• Navigate project See what is where and to access your sources.
• Maven Launching Running the maven goals.
• Output Parsing See how the Maven build output interacts with the editor.
• Project Configuration Setup the POM and plugin properties.
• Jelly Editor Code Completion in project.xml and maven.xml files.