jform-designer

What is a non-visual bean?

Using JForm Designer I am trying to change the class of a JPanel in the properties window from JPanel to various custom classes, all of which subclass JPanel. Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails with the message: panel1: Can not morph non-toplevel component to non-visual bean. What is a non-visual bean? Why are some of my subclass...

Spring Swing Integration

Spring does not play nicely with beans that are created outside of its application context. What's the best way in letting me design my forms using JFormDesigner but then using Spring to manage the actions of the components? There are a few ways of integrating Spring and Swing (eg https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/tutorials/j-spr...