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It's not much known that Maven allows parameters "combine.children" and "combine.self", as described here: http://www.sonatype.com/people/2011/01/maven-how-to-merging-plugin-configuration-in-complex-projects/ combine.children = "append" | "merge" combine.self = "override" | "merge" Thanks for considering.
What specifically are you asking for here? I cannot foresee having time to implement support for a relatively obscure POM feature, so if you want it, NetFIX [1] is the surest way. [1] http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetFIX
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss