I've been searching for a notifications api for use on my swing project. All of the apis on the net use TrayIcon, which i find ugly and unusable for application errors because of visual distance among other things.

So i investigated the netbeans notification api, which has a GUI which looks ideal from it's usage on the IDE.

I found it's possible to pull the module which implements it has a jar to use on my (non-netbeans rpc) application from ivy. However it pulls many other modules. On investigation, these modules besides:
org-netbeans-modules-notifications (implementation)
org-netbeans-openide-awt (containts the notification interfaces)
org-netbeans-openide-lookup
org-netbeans-openide-util

seem to be uncesserary for runtime operation, except the one that pulls Etable, which is used a view for output window notification panel.
Since most apps do not require this output window, just the popup icon, would you consider modularizing the Etable dependency away behind lookup? If a implementation was not provided, you could just not update the table, and the notification module could be used on a standalone app with minimal dependency spread.