[platform-dev] getting started with netbeans develpment

[bernie_bontemps]

I am starting to build an applicationon top of Netbeans 7.

I would like to use maven to manage my dependencies.
Since i found hard to add all the dependencies i need one by one, i
rather started from the IDE cluster, then excluding the dependencies i
did't need.
However, i realize now that clusters are specific structures and that
consequently i cannot download the sources for each individual jars
that composed it. Hence i cannot read the sources directly which would
be way easier to explore netbeans.
How can i access the sources of the IDE easily? Should i try to create
a new pom project that references jar rather than nbm-file?