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The following page has a section on using compile on save in a maven project. http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqCompileOnSave This should be reviewed and augmented a bit for clarity
Reassigning to default owner.
@Milos: IMHO this issue can be closed because you recently updated the documentation in http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqCompileOnSave
updated for 7.4, please review