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With all this talk about frameworks the last few days, here are the existing Netbeans Platform Docs in case you are curious.

Netbeans Platform Docs
This document provides a list of NetBeans APIs with a short description of what they are used for, and a table describing different types of interfaces (see What is an API? to understand why we list DTDs, file formats, etc.) and with a stability category (see API life-cycle for a list of possible API stability categories and their meaning). The aim is to provide as detailed a definition of NetBeans module external interfaces as possible and give other developers a chance to decide whether they want to depend on a particular API or not.

Some of these APIs are part of the NetBeans Platform (for example lookup, loaders, utilities, nodes, explorer, window systems, multiview, etc.), some of them are specific to NetBeans IDE (projects, javacore, diff, etc.) and some are not included in the release at all and are just provided for download (usually via autoupdate). Basically when building an application based on NetBeans one is free to choose the set of modules and their APIs to satisfy one's needs.