JSwat on NetBeans platform

After some time considering the numerous features that I wanted to add
to JSwat, I came to realize that a system existed already that
implemented most of the core functionality -- the NetBeans platform.
This is not the NetBeans IDE, although the IDE is based on the platform.
To learn more, see this page:

  http://www.netbeans.org/products/platform/

It's free, just like NetBeans IDE is free, and it will not affect the
"free-ness" of JSwat any more than the "non-free-ness" of the JPDA
already does.

Anyway, the benefits for this are numerous, especially for me. There's
an awful lot of functionality in the NetBeans platform that will free me
to work on the features of JSwat that are core to debugging. Here are
some of the benefits to you the user:

1. Startup of JSwat should become less complicated because the tools.jar
file can be dynamically discovered and made available to the JSwat code
(I am hoping).
2. The top-level interface components can be rearranged to your liking.
3. The interface becomes generally more customizable.
4. Should get JSP colorization for free.
5. Should get scripting language support for free.
6. Interface provided by NetBeans is more polished.

The drawbacks to this, I believe, are that the console mode and the
jEdit plugin may either be difficult or impossible to implement on the
NetBeans platform. Does this bother me? Not one bit, but there are
plenty of users who are downloading the jEdit plugin, so I am curious
what jEdit users have to say about this.

Thoughts? Comments? Concerns?

nathan