Debugging Maven Mojo Plugin Sources Becomes Very Easy Using NetBeans 8

Sometime it happens that when you configure a Maven mojo plugin, the given configuration doesn't apply or doesn't work as expected. To investigate the problem it would be very useful to debug the mojo plugin sources. 

Using NetBeans 8 this becomes easier than ever.

NetBeans now downloads the sources of the mojo from the external maven repo, starts the debugger and waits within the execute-method of the mojo. Now you can debug the plugin and see what is wrong.

NetBeans 8 introduces some more nice features for Maven. Have a look at the "New and Noteworthy" page http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB80#Maven_2

You can download NetBeans at https://netbeans.org/

For reference: https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219402, https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201754