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NB plan issue: http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=89008
the ui spec is at http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/MavenUISpec
We did the first round of UI consultation and then we agreed to not do the full UI review as the Maven functionality will not be part of standard distribution. The reason is resources.