Converting a Netbeans project to a Maven enabled project

Question

How can I transition a Netbeans generated project into accepting a Maven configuration? There are options to create Maven based projects, but there is nothing (that I\'ve fo

Answer 1

If you are familial with maven, then you can always configure maven even in the later, however it is not recommended.

the only reason behind people(including me ;) ) recommend to create a new maven project, is Maven has it's own directory structure. And that is standard. now if you want to enable maven for your project at a later stage, than you can configure the things in pom.xml, i.e. your source directory, target directory and web app directory(if applicable)

I had a large project in SVN and was disallowed to create a new project. I did not want to support lib management and so I configured maven according to my directory structure.

here's the part of my pom.xml

    
    src
    testpackages
    target/test-classes
    
        
            2.3.2
            maven-compiler-plugin
            
                1.6
                1.6
            
        
        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-war-plugin
            2.1.1
            
                false
                
                    
                        
                        web-root