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Describe the architecture of IDE (all IDE's modules) by answering set of NetBeans Architecture Questions as described at http://openide.netbeans.org/tutorial/api.html See also issue 30370.
Things with API are documented and are getting documented at http://www.netbeans.org/download/dev/javadoc/ which contains all newly created IDE API modules.