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NetBeans IDE 7.3 Beta (Build 201209232010) JDK 7u7 64-bit During testing I created a Maven-based platform application. And accidentally created another with the same name inside the parent folder of the first. This caused the project creation to fail with the message: The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1] The project com.test:mavenproject3-parent:1.0-SNAPSHOT (C:\Users\HPellissier\Documents\NetBeansProjects\mavenproject3\mavenproject3\pom.xml) has 1 error 'parent.artifactId' must be changed, the parent element cannot have the same groupId:artifactId as the project. @ line 5, column 17 Which is true since now the first parent is also the parent of the new application and they have the same groupId:artifactId. This is rather an edge case, but it does bring up the question whether the parent's parent should have been set in that case at all.
well, the setting of the parent for generated projects is performed by maven-archetype-plugin, not by us. In most real life scenarios it's a non issue, as the default project name is not kept in the vast majority of usages.