Filed as issue #159060.

Update: Fixed in trunk and available in 6.7 M2.

Dear NetBeans, thank you for the courtesy of warning me, but why do you really ask? You don’t give me much choice, do you…?

Now submitted as bug #155031.

1. Pick archetype of choice, e.g.: mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.appfuse.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=appfuse-basic-spring -DremoteRepositories=http://static.appfuse.org/releases -DarchetypeVersion=2.0.2 -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=myproject
2. Run mvn
3. Generate full sources: mvn appfuse:full-source
4. Install the Maven plugin in NetBeans (Tools / Plugins / Search for Maven).
5. Open the project (located the pom.xml file)
6. Right-click the project name and select Properties
7. In categories, select Run. Chose a server.
8. In categories, select Actions. Check the box for Use external Maven for build execution.
9. In main window, select Tools / Options / Miscellaneous / Maven 2.
10. Now Run the project, and after a while a browser should open pointing you to the login screen.

Either install the Maven plugin Mevenide2 for NetBeans, then you may simply open the Maven project generated by AppFuse directly. Without the Maven plugin, then you need to convert to project using mvn netbeans:netbeans (see previous post). Opening up a converted project with the NetBeans Maven plugin installed will result in badness.

Wondering where the source is? See this post.

The plugin ‘org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-netbeans-plugin’ does not exist or no valid version could be found

Apprently it cannot find the netbeans plugin. To fix this, open the pom.xml of the project and add a new plugin repository:

    <pluginRepositories>

        ... keep the existing one ...

        <pluginRepository>
          <id>agilejava</id>
          <name>Agilejava</name>
          <url>http://agilejava.com/maven/</url>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>

That’s it.

<install dir>\etc\netbeans.conf

Find netbeans_default_options and add the following option to the line:

–laf javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel

This will change it to the nice Metal cross-plattform look-and-feel.

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