Quite a few student thesis projects (typically for Masters programs
at universities) have been done on the NetBeans Platform. To start
gathering these into one place, here's a randomly sorted list of
all the thesis work I know about, off the top of my head:
Thomas Würthinger in Linz, Austria: "Visualization
of Program Dependence Graphs" (blogged
about here)
Pawel Boguszewski in Warsaw, Poland: Ruby Editor on the
NetBeans Platform (blogged
about here)
Fionn Ziegler in Würzburg,...