How to use a NetBeans Platform application from another Java application

Imagine you have a NB Platform application and you would like to use that application via some other app that you've created.

In essence, 开发者_Go百科how can you learn how to start an application if you don't want to use the NB Platform or IDE. You'd somehow need to figure out the stuff that NB Platform does for you when it loads up a module.

Thanks goes to Geertjan for these:

http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/using-intellij-idea-netbeans

http://java.dzone.com/news/ide-agnostic-swing-rcp-develop