How to introspect Java Web Start GUI Application?

Question

There is an Java Web Start GUI Application. As I understand it is based on Swing. So the question is how to make an introspection in that application? Is there any way to accomplish that? For example, in case of HTML there is a Firebug application that can help to introspect the source of any HTML element. And I want to get a way that can help me to know the source of any button or item event handler. For example, if I push button "btn1" then textbox "txtBox" will show message "Msg". And I want to get the sequence of steps that make message to shown.

Answer 1

I am not sure if this answers your question since you don't say what are you trying to do, but if you want to do GUI testing don't reinvent the wheel. There are GUI Testing Tools free and commmercial that do what you describe.