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One of the many nice people I met at JavaOne was Mark Stephens, from IDR Solutions. Mark and a colleague did a very interesting BOF about how they created their JPedal viewer plugin for each of the main IDEs (i.e., IntelliJ, NetBeans IDE, and Eclipse). He highlighted various things that were cool and not so cool about creating plugins for each of the IDEs. One of the things he told me was that the "Build ZIP Distribution" menu item on the project node of module suite projects is confusing. He had expected to be able to choose that menu item and then get a ZIP file containing all the NBMs in the suite. Instead, the menu item resulted in an application being created, i.e., including a launcher and a bin folder and so on.