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This could be classified as a combination of a suggested improvement and bug fix, and relates to the matisse swing gui builder. I have a custom component that extends 'JPanel' called 'MsgPanel', and when I try to add it to a component in the gui builder, I get an error dialog "The component cannot be instantiated. Please make sure it is a JavaBeans component." This seems to be due to some classpath issue, as the component has a default constructor, which runs outside the gui builder without throwing an exception. (I think the problem has something to do with the fact that I am using cglib in the project to add property change support to javabeans on the fly.) I suggest that the error dialog should have a "details" button yielding a stack trace of what caused the error. (Or maybe the error should be reported in the bottom right like other errors in the ide.) The reason I suggest this is that I have been facing this problem with a lot of custom components, and debugging the issues is difficult without more information on why they occured.
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*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 121616 ***