This plug-in integrates JFormDesigner into Oracle JDeveloper.
Using this plug-in has following benefits compared to JFormDesigner stand-alone edition:
The screenshot below shows the JDeveloper main window editing a JFormDesigner form.
A JFormDesigner editor consists of:
You can create new forms using JDeveloper's New command. In the category Swing/AWT choose JFormDesigner Form and click OK to proceed.
In the Create JFormDesigner Form dialog, enter the form name (which is also used as class name), choose a superclass, a layout manager and set localization options.
You can open existing forms the same way as opening any other file in JDeveloper. Locate it in JDeveloper's Application Navigator view and double-click it.
JFormDesigner adds a button to JDeveloper's main toolbar that
enables you to switch quickly from a JFormDesigner form editor to its
Java editor and vice versa. If a form editor is active, then the button
is named Go to Java code (). If
a Java editor is active, then it is named Go to JFormDesigner form
(
).
You can convert existing JDeveloper 12c forms (which are actually NetBeans forms), NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA to JFormDesigner forms. Right-click on the form file (or any container) and select Convert to JFormDesigner Form.
When converting an IntelliJ IDEA form, JFormDesigner inserts its own generated GUI code into the existing Java class and removes IntelliJ IDEA's GUI code.
The JFormDesigner preferences are fully integrated into the JDeveloper preferences dialog. Select Tools > Preferences from the menu to open it and then expand the node "JFormDesigner" in the tree. See Preferences for details.
Following features from other editions are not supported by the JDeveloper plug-in: