The pics below sum up everything you need to know to conceptually
understand the NetBeans
Platform, an application framework for large distributed Swing
applications:
The above is Toni Epple, from Eppleton, an independent Java
consulting and project out sourcing company in Munich, Germany,
presenting the NetBeans Platform in Gdansk, Poland. Several other
pics available here and also
here, with probably more coming in the next few days, from the
NetBeans Days that took place...