have bought Java Express, tried to reverse engineer an existing system, but in the Java Designer there is no option to Reverse Java Application from Sources, although the help system says there should be.

I created a project and then added a package as the reverse engineering only seems to work from a package.

It would be helpful to have a step by step guide from project creation to reverse engineering an existing complete app.

Hi !

The Reverse of an application from source must be launch from the root package of the project... On root package contextual menu -> 'Java Designer\Reverse Java application from sources'. This command launch a wizard that allow you to reverse Java sources files, and it always worked fine for me.

By the way, I recommend you to check the JDK as 'model component to deploy' in the project creation wizard (or deploy it from the root package contextual menu -> 'Java Designer\Deploy a model component') before reversing your application, this will deploy all JDK classes in your project...

Hi,

You can also have a look at the following section of the online user guide:

Help / Help contents / Modelio Java Designer / Functionalities / Java reverse / Launching the reverse wizard

Best regards,

support wrote:
Hi,

You can also have a look at the following section of the online user guide:

Help / Help contents / Modelio Java Designer / Functionalities / Java reverse / Launching the reverse wizard

Best regards,

Thanks I did that before posting, didn't explain what herrbro did
cheers

Herr Brö wrote:
Hi !

The Reverse of an application from source must be launch from the root package of the project... On root package contextual menu -> 'Java Designer\Reverse Java application from sources'. This command launch a wizard that allow you to reverse Java sources files, and it always worked fine for me.

By the way, I recommend you to check the JDK as 'model component to deploy' in the project creation wizard (or deploy it from the root package contextual menu -> 'Java Designer\Deploy a model component') before reversing your application, this will deploy all JDK classes in your project...

Problem I had was that the option did appear when I right-clicked on the only package.

Since then I deleted another item I had created and suddenly the original package behaved correctly and allowed me the reverse engineering option. Not sure what I did wrong first time round nor what I did right now, however it seems to work - thansk for the help