It is possible to start the Cayenne modeler within Netbeans. Go to your Maven project and right-click on the project name. Choose Custom->Goals… and put “cayenne-modeler:run” (without quotes) into the first line. Click on “Remember as” and choose a name for the goal (like Cayenne-Modeler). Now you have a new menu item, which can start the modeler. But you need the associated plugin within the pom-file of the project. Go to “Project Files” and open the “pom.xml”. Add

<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.cayenne.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-cayenne-modeler-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>


Now you can open the modeler.