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Target folder content in maven projects should be excluded from "Search Class" and "Search File". This worked as expected till NB8.
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