title: Convert Maven project to Netbeans project
body: <p>When ever I open up a <a href="http://www.disasterarea.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/spannersws.zip" rel="nofollow">Maven project</a> in Netbeans and try do a "Priming Build" or normal "Build" it fails. It either gets stuck downloading dependencies or throws errors. Is there a plugin or something that can convert Maven projects to Netbeans projects? Even if you have to manually download the dependencies...</p>
  
  <p>This is one of the errors I get:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for</p>
    
    <p>org.dontpanic:spannersws:war:1.0-SNAPSHOT
    'build.plugins.plugin.version' for
    org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin is missing. @ line 66,
    column 21</p>
    
    <p>It is highly recommended to fix these problems because they threaten
    the stability of your build.</p>
    
    <p>For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support
    building such malformed projects.</p>
  </blockquote>