If we do something wrong in our pom.xml
we see the following in our Projects view in NetBeans:
We can change this by editing the file fallback_pom.xm
. We can find this file in our NetBeans settings directory (default this is ${HOME}/.netbeans/6.1) and then in the maven2
directory. The fallback_pom.xml
is just a very simple POM and is used for any Maven project with errors. We can add for example a description with a little hint:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>error</groupId> <artifactId>error</artifactId> <packaging>unknown</packaging> <version>unknown</version> <name><Badly formed Maven project></name> <description>Check the syntax of the pom.xml file or look in the /var/log/messages file in your settings directory.</description> </project>Now when we have an error in our POM we see the description with our text: