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Maven has a really useful way to work with dependencies. But I don't want to switch again to another build system. Netbeans ant based system is really well designed and it works great. But it would make sense to adopt the maven repository and dependency system. A working, pluggable extension like http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ddevore/archive/2006/02/maven_repositor_1.html or http://ptrthomas.wordpress.com/2006/04/18/another-way-to-integrate-maven-2-with-ant-and-netbeans/ seems to be quite easily be integrateble.
would be great to have this an a NB 6.0 version :)
ivybeans (http://code.google.com/p/ivybeans/) shall allow you to use maven repositories in ant projects. for the rest, probably a duplicate of issue 134677 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 134677 ***