Using Lombok in a NetBeans Platform project with Maven

Lombok is a nice annotation processor for generating boilerplate code, such as getters and setters. It's pretty straightforward to use, especially if you're using Maven as you only need a few extra declarations in the pom. After some experimenting, I've started using it with my NetBeans Platform projects and it worked fine, with only a small tip to be taken care.

As per the Lombok documentation, usually you only need to put this in your pom:

    <repositories>
        ...
        <repository>
            <id>projectlombok.org</id>
            <name>Lombok Repository</name>
            <url>http://projectlombok.org/mavenrepo</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
        
    <dependencies>
        ...
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

It works, but the Maven NBM plugin will embed the lombok jar into the generated .nbm. To avoid that, you just need to add the scope element as below:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>