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The general requirement is to allow an external module to create web projects programatically with some parameters to control the certain project settings (this will allow any module to create their own UI (i.e. wizard iterators) while reusing the underlying web project machinery for instantiating the project.
org.netbeans.modules.web.project.api.WebProjectUtilities ?
By using the framework approach, Visual Web is no longer needing this feature. But since org.netbeans.modules.web.project.api.WebProjectUtilities is not public (friend only), it's still not accessible by the 3rd party developers.