Known Issues 1. Glossary Various users and programmers of windowing systems may have different semantics for exactly the same widgets and behaviors. The following definition's are provided for clarity. Basic windowed entity outside of main window of Netbeans. For example, the filesystems component shows the content of the mounted file systems, the editor component shows the content of Java source files, etc.
Frames are containers for collections of components.
Collections of components can be visualized in various ways, or styles, the most common being in tabbed panes. Components are docked into frames, and frames are docked into desktops. A desktop can also contain icons of minimized frames or IDE shortcuts. The windowing system consists of one or more workspaces. Netbeans will support both an SDI and MDI interface.