# Netbeans 6.7 Beta + Maven = Heaven (more than promising)

I had problems with Netbeans 6.7 dev build, especially in the refactoring area, so I sticked with 6.5.1 and ignored the 6.7 stream completely. I started to use 6.7beta again. Some observations:L&F on Mac is really nice."View -> Synchronize Editor Views" synchronizes the tabs with the project-tree (like in Eclipse) Maven support is very promising:The performance is comparable with Ant projectsJava EE support is (almost) as complete as in Ant (= Netbeans <= 6.5.1)You can create a Java EE project with a wizard which is comprised of several modules and deploy it with "run". (a multi-module project)Profiling and debugging work as expectedThe visualization of dependencies is not only useful - but it looks really niceYou can open existing Maven projects, build them and deploy them on a Java EE server (I tested it with GV 2.1)There is no dependency on Netbeans (except a property in POM)The maven repository browser works and is useful"Compile on save" with Maven works and is even configurableMaven is able to start your server and deploy your app - its seemlessly integratedKenai integration is really good.Had only briefly tested the hudson integration - but it worked so far.What can be improved:Refactoring between maven-modules doesn't always work. E.g. I tried to rename an EJB 3 and the change was not recognized in WAR. In other cases it worked perfectly.The add-dependency wizard doesn't always work (but the code-completion in POM is even more useful and faster)NPE are occuring from time to time - but they seem not to be harmful. Summary: if you are using Maven, you have to try Netbeans 6.7. If you aren't using Maven but Java EE you should at least try it :-).