modifications.


* Implementation Notes

** Accessibility of offline status

  Offline status should be indicated in the MavenSettings instance, since it
  can conceivably be set from either the settings.xml or the command-line.

  In the event the '-o' switch is the impetus for setting offline mode, this
  should result in modification of the active profile in the MavenSettings

 in a known location. This would also help with developer setup i.e. getting
 new developers up and running. They could run a maven command and have all
 their source trees set up in the same way as their colleagues.

 here's what I do currently in the netbeans part of the mavenide project to
 find the relevant subprojects/sibling projects. I check if the user has