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

I discovered by accident, the reason why Netbeans 8.2. opens projects as Netbeans projects instead of Maven projects; after you have deleted the netbeans and ant specific files then replaced them with the correctly formed pom.

Netbeans seems to cache the project types for already opened projects, this can be resolved by deleting said cache.

Windows its located here:

C:\Users\${username}\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache

Linux here:

~/.cache/netbeans/${netbeans_version}/index/

Mac here:

~/Library/Caches/NetBeans/${netbeans_version}/