Using Visual Composites Imported from Version 1

If you imported composites using a Version 1 interchange file (.dat), you must open them in the Visual Composition Editor and resave them in the current environment before exporting again. This is necessary because the scheme through which VisualAge records visual composition information changed after Version 1.

In Version 1, you shared composites with other repositories by exporting to an interchange file distinct from Java source. Starting in Version 2, you share composites by exporting to a Java source file. Visual composition information now resides in a method within the class, named getBuilderData( ). This method is regenerated every time the composite is saved. Your resave operation gives VisualAge the opportunity to generate this method the very first time.