Use of Visual Beans Created in Other Tools

VisualAge can generate visual composites from GUI beans created outside the VisualAge development environment. This can save you editing time if the bean contains a large number of visual components. VisualAge constructs the composite by querying an instance of your GUI bean about its contents. This is what you can expect from this reverse-engineering process:

Undo is not supported for reverse-engineering visual composites. If you are not satisfied with the results, close the class browser without saving the newly engineered composite. In any case, version the bean before you reverse-engineer it.

To proceed with reverse-engineering, open the bean in the Visual Composition Editor. From the Bean menu, select Construct Visuals from Source.


Related concepts
Visual, Nonvisual, and Composite Beans

Related procedures
Importing Classes from the File System