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

See here [1] on how to compile for your platform and here [2] how libraries
follow Jansi's directory and filename conventions.

[1] https://github.com/fusesource/jansi/tree/master/src/main/native