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.

JSpy is operating system independent — it just needs Java 6 or newer.

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.

To execute jSpy call it from the console:

java -jar JSpy.jar

When started go into File > Execute Command

Execute Command: javaws C:\path\to\file.jnlp

To run the application by it's java class remember to add it's jar's path (the path musn't contain spaces) to the CLASSPATH environment variable.

Execute Command: java Package.ClassName