Building Apache CXF source with the NetBeans IDE

The NetBeans IDE has native Maven support. This means that nothing needs to be setup to get things to work (i.e., downloading Maven plugins is not necessary).

Setting Maven Options

TODO: Explain setting MAVEN_OPTS relative to NetBeans.

Platform	Options
Unix (e.g. Solaris/Linux) or Windows	-Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M
64 bit Unix/Windows and/or out-of-memory or PermGen space errors	MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx768M -XX:MaxPermSize=192M
64 bit Unix/Windows with JDK 1.6 (update 14 or later)	-XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Xmx512M -XX:+UseCompressedOops

Building the source

Here are the steps to build Apache CXF source with NetBeans:

Start NetBeans 7.0
Open the Apache CXF project ( File->Open Project->[Find and Select Parent CXF POM] ). Click on the Open Project button.
Select Tools->Options->Miscellaneous Icon->Maven Tab. In the "Global Execution Options:" edit box, add desired options (if any) followed by clicking OK:

Profile option	Description
-Peverything	Builds everything including the distribution modules that are normally excluded and the sample projects.
-Pnochecks	Builds CXF without running Checkstyle
-Pfastinstall	Builds CXF without running Checkstyle or the tests

Example: -Peverything,fastinstall

Right click "Apache CXF" and select "Clean and Build".