JSpy

JSpy is a tool that displays the component properties of any java Swing application in the simplest way. To automate Swing applications, You generally need to venture into the application's sources to retrieve the component's properties. That's very time consuming and frustrating or even impossible. Using JSpy all You need to do to get the component's properties is to hover the coursor over the component.

Dependencies

JSpy is operating system independent — it just needs Java 8 or newer.

Building from sources

We’ll go with IntelliJ for compiling this First clone the repository

git clone github.com/nokia/JSpy.git

Open cloned JSpy directory in IntelliJ. Go to File>Project Structure>Artifact Add a jar artifact, point it to manifest file and set spyGui.SpyMain as Main Class

To compile build the jar Artifact with attached manifest.

Requirements

If you want to use JSpy with Java WebStart applications, you should create .java.policy file in your home directory. Content of the file should be:

grant {
    permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

Running

To execute jSpy call it from the console:

java -jar JSpy.jar

Usage

When started go into File > Execute Command