Maven plugin for Netbeans is the best IDE integration of Maven out there. 

There has, so far, only been one irritation. It's a very quiet plugin. It fails humbly.

For instance, I'm trying to add a dependency through the Libraries node of my project. It's not adding it. Not even
giving an error. Not even a mumble or a frown. 

I tried it again this morning and the status bar (this time) said "Finished retrieving dependencies from remote
repositories". Then a JavaDoc download progressbar appeared, followed by a sources progressbar. But after that nothing
happened either. Tried it again, same story - message+progress bar. This didn't happen yesterday.

Note that the dependency is from the local repository, and that this has happened many times. It's not the dependency or
the version either because when this happens, adding ANY dependencies fail or other versions fail.

I usually goto the repository browser and add with "Add as Dependency To" from there. This usually works, but if both
fail I edit the POM and manually add it, at which time the node updates and all is happy.

Though adding it like that didn't work this time either, so I'm opening the pom... creating the dependency with the
incredible auto complete.. and it gets added this time. So the problem is probably a failure that causes netbeans to
break out and never reach the step where it has to add it to the model.

Further, I can't remove the dependency either. No error over here either. Nothing in the statusbar or anywhere. Just a
humble, quiet fail. Only option is to edit the pom.

I also checks ~/.netbeans/dev/var/log/*. Nothing. Very humble.

I guess the optimist would say "At _least_ I don't get any errors".