Change all references to Label to JLabel across all project

Hello Jaime,

Structural Search & Replace will help you do that.

Hi, I just want to know if intellij has some class of refactoring that
allows us to migrate from a class to another, with a similiar
interface (because they both share the Component parent)

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THank you, I´ll take that approach the next time, this time I found that Refactor  > Migrate can help me to replace classes across all the project, I just created a new migration map to migrate from awt to swing.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:42:31 MSK, Jaime Hablutzel
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who said :

>Hi, I just want to know if intellij has some class of refactoring that allows us to migrate from a class to another, with a similiar interface (because they both share the Component parent)
>
>Thank you.

There is more to flipping from AWT to Swing that putting a J in front
of the component names. One biggy is figuring out where to use
contentPanes.   You might want to tackle it a class at a time.  One
technique is to use a Search/replace script, based on your manual
experience with a few classes, then compile, patch the errors, the
eyeball for gotchas.  See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/searchreplace.html

A keyword you might want to search for is "migrate". There may be
plugins or tools for helping automate that process.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/swing.html for a list of differences
between AWT and Swing you will have to deal with.
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One biggy is figuring out where to use contentPanes.

Is this still relevant? Since java5 jframe.add/remove/... calls are forwarded to the contentPane and I can't imagine anyone making a migration awt->swing targetting java1.4.

Or are there some quirks I don't know about that still make it necessary to use contentPanes?

Interesting posts... in my particular case it was no more than an academic project consisting of twenty Panels, with references to old awt API, so I just needed to create a simple migration map for classes, because as I can see they even share the constructor signature.