IDE Integrations
JFormDesigner is available as stand-alone application and as
plug-ins for various IDEs. The IDE plug-ins completely integrate
JFormDesigner into the IDEs.
Following IDE plug-ins are available:
Other IDEs
If there is no JFormDesigner plug-in for your favorite IDE, you can
use the stand-alone edition of JFormDesigner side by side with your IDE.
IDE plug-ins for NetBeans and JDeveloper are already
under development.
IDE interworking with stand-alone edition
Care must be taken because you edit the
Java source in the IDE and JFormDesigner stand-alone also modifies the
Java
source file when generating code for the form. As long as you follow
the following rule, you will never have a problem:
Save the Java file in the IDE before saving the
form in
JFormDesigner stand-alone.
Your IDE will recognize that the Java file was modified outside of
the IDE and will reload it. Some IDEs ask the user before reloading
files, other IDEs silently reload files.
If you have not saved the Java file in the IDE, then you should
prevent the IDE from reloading it. In this case save the Java file in
the IDE
and then use Generate Java Code in
JFormDesigner stand-alone.
JFormDesigner generates Java code when you either Save the
form or select Generate Java Code.
JFormDesigner does not hold a copy of the Java source in memory.
Every time JFormDesigner generates Java code, it first reads the Java
source file, parses it, updates it and writes it back to the disk.
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