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Using the search infrastructure shall be available to other modules, too. I' m trying to write a module which gathers message keys, and search the project sources if the keys are really used. I can imagine some other kind of "extractors" like extracting from jsp files the message keys from, and trying to find the message keys in the properties bundles. Making search available would also help, in making Netbeans IDE scriptable.
Module api.search (Search API) is now public, so you can use it in your modules. If it doesn't suit your needs, please reopen this issue and describe what you would like to reuse. Thanks.