Article: Converting Ant to Maven in NetBeans

After a good couple of days spent converting ant projects over to maven, here is what I consider the easiest method. This is using NetBeans 6.5rc1 but probably works in 6.1.

Here are the steps for converting an ant project to a maven project in NetBeans.
This presumes your ~/.m2/settings.xml is already set up (not shown here for security purposes) and you have installed the Netbeans maven2 plugin:

1. Open ant project
2. Create new maven project using the “Maven Quickstart Archetype”
3. Properties -> Sources -> Change to 1.6
4. pom.xml -> Add distribution management

<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>nexus</id>
<name>Internal Releases</name>
<url>YourInternalReleaseURL</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>

5. Files tab -> src/main -> add folder “resources”. This will create an “Other Sources/resources” entry in the project view...

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