It would be very useful to be able to create minimal web and application free
form projects.  Something that has only the minimum number of tasks defined in
the resulting Ant file, which lends itself to easy customization.  

The current project creation options create very heavy Ant files which are
impractical to edit by hand.  Also, the current free form project creation
options require an existing Ant script, and customizing your Ant script to
integrate with the NB editor can be confusing.  A nice, minimal Ant script which
implements debugging and web deployment would be great.

Or perhaps even a minimal Ant script could be generated from the new file
wizard.  This could be kept under the /ant folder in the file creation dialog.