I was just looking at the files generated by a NetBeans project.
I notice that the following directories are created.

Inside the nbproject subdir there are some project , implementation and properties files.
Each subdir has a few files in them. If I were to use textpad and work from the command line one would not have all the se files.
Nick, can you please point me to where I can read up more on the purpose of each of these files.