inspect element in java swing application

Question

In web applications that run with Tomcat from Eclipse, for example, we can right-click on an element in the page and inspect it (with Firebug, for example), and we can see the element's ID, class, etc. If we have a JAVA Swing application that we run from Eclipse (right-click project ==> debug as ==> eclipse application), can we do the same thing so that we can see which method, for example handles that element, or whatever? Can we inspect a JAVA Swing element as it runs (from Eclipse)? I already checked swing-inspector, but I do not want it.

Thank you

Answer 1

I am sorry that I can not offer you a solution for Eclipse. If you can use Netbeans it includes a Visual Debugger feature . It is simple to use and it is integrated in Netbeans by default.