Setting up a NetBeans RCP project from the shell.

nbproject.sh

$ cd ~/Projects
$ mvn -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes \
      -DarchetypeArtifactId=netbeans-platform-app-archetype \
      -DarchetypeVersion=1.12 \
      archetype:generate
...
Define value for property 'groupId':    com.example
Define value for property 'artifactId': app
Define value for property 'version':    1.0-SNAPSHOT
Define value for property 'package':    com.example.app
...
$ cd app
$ mvn -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes \
      -DarchetypeArtifactId=nbm-archetype \
      -DarchetypeVersion=1.11 \
      archetype:generate
...
Define value for property 'groupId':    com.example
Define value for property 'artifactId': mymodel
Define value for property 'version':    1.0-SNAPSHOT
Define value for property 'package':    com.example.mymodel
...