[mevenide-user] Why mevenide2 for netbeans?

Hey all,

Here's an opportunity to jump on someone for not understanding or knowing.
In any case my question is why?  Why was mevenide started?  My experience
with mevenide has been rather poor compared to my experience with the
intellij plugin for maven.  As many of you are aware, the intellij plugin
works in a different fashion than the mevenide2 plugin.  A command is issued
for your root pom file and all the intellij project files are generated.
Then one can open up intellij and develop in a familiar fashion without
regards to dependencies or even the fact that maven is used because the
maven in this scenario is transparent.  My experience has been rather
seemless with this approach.

My experience with the mevenide2 plugin has been much different.  The
mevenide2 plugin is a plugin for Netbeans rather than a plugin for maven2.
Thus Netbeans treats the pom.xml files as project files and essentially
issues maven goals to maven the appropriate projects when actions are
performed such as build, debug, etc.  This means that prerequisite goals
have to be ran before your desired goal is ran.

My biggest point of disappointment, is how long it takes to just debug and
run a project.  Let's  say I make a change to my project.  In order for me
to debug my project all the prerequisite goals must be ran before I can
debug my project, like the jar goal.  In my uninformed and biased opinion, I
don't have any interest in making artifacts when I want to debug.  I merely
want all my java files compiled to classes and I want them loaded into the
class path so I can debug.  Furthermore, I desire only modified java files
to be recompiled. mevenide2 does all java files all the time and creates the
jar files wasting my time.

There was a maven plugin for for netbeans, similar to the one developed for
intellij.  This plugin produced native netbeans project files so that one
could have a similar native development experience with netbeans as with the
intellij plugin.  It seems though that this has been pretty much abandoned.
My question and purpose for this post is to understand the rationale behind
this.  I am an advocate of maven, but I don't understand why anyone would
want it to be a development environment such as what it has been made into
with the mevenide2 plugin rather than a dependency management tool.

Is there a way to get what I want out of the mevenide2 plugin?

Please advise.

Thanks,
Matt