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File navigation in the IDE does not allow one to navigate into bundle files (e.g., to get inside a .app bundle). You might want to do this, for instance, to add a jar from an application (like OpenOffice) to your project, or to build a library wrapper around jars found in a .app bundle. But, when you are doing file navigation in any file browser window, when you get to a '.app' it adds that directory as if it were a file, and doesn't let you drill down into the directory structure that is contained within the bundle.
What dialog do you have in mind (open project, add Jar/folder)? NetBeans does not modify 'select FILE' kind of file chooser.
Adding jars and/or libraries to a project. I think when I filed this I was trying to work with the OOo SDK, and was having to copy items out of the OOo application bundle to put them somewhere to use as project dependencies.