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I would like NetBeans to have not just global libraries, but also libraries that would be local to a project. Those libraries should have been defined in project configuration file and it should be possible to use relative paths in library definitions. This feature would be great for team development, because library definitions would be in source control system, thus eleminating the need to define each library for each developer. Otherwise it's necessary to maintain some documentation about what JARs each library should have, so developers can recreate library definitions every time they need. Project libraries would be a great relief,
The issue of the lack of project-based libraries has come up a number of times on the development and netcat mailing lists as a real shortcoming in NetBeans. It makes it very difficult to share projects with others and to use different computers (home and work) that may not be configured identically. The only way to encapsulate the project now is to not use libraries, but jars only. Unfortunately, you can't associate source code with a jar which makes it difficult navigate to the source code within the IDE.
This issue has already been started and some work has been done. Please see Issue 44035. I'm closing this one as a duplicate. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 44035 ***