Hi posse, Maven support in Intellij and Netbeans was praized in the most recent episode. Although both IDE's indeed support maven very well, they do it in a very different manner. Both approaches have their downsides and upsides, but I tend to prefer one over the other very much. Netbeans reads pom.xml files, and then depends completely upon maven for build, test execution etc. Although this indeed has the advantage of not doing anything different then on the "real" build server, it also brings in the overhead of the maven process into the IDE. In stead of quickly running a single test in the IDE, you are now effectively running a maven process each time. Maven does a lot more things then just running the test (which is nice for a full build, but not for a quick test in an IDE). Intellij on the other hand, reads the pom.xml file and constructs an IntelliJ project from it (and synchronizes changes in the pom files into the project when required). This means that once the pom.xml file has been read (and dependencies downloaded etc), the IDE behaves the same like for a standard IntelliJ project, which works much nicer (faster).
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