# Managed forms

Managed forms are wrappers that add life cycle management and notification to form members. Managed form is not a form by itself. It has a form and accepts registration of `IFormPart` element. For each `IFormPart`, it manages events like dirty state, saving, commit, focus, selection changes etc. In order to reach to the wrapped form widget, call the '`getForm()'` method.

There is a similarity between managed forms and JFace viewers - the relationship between a form and a managed form is similar to the one between a `Table` widget and `TableViewer` in JFace, for example.

Not every control on the form needs to be a form part. It is better to group a number of controls and implement `IFormPart` interface for the group. Section is a natural group and Eclipse Form provides `SectionPart` implementation. It implements the interface and contains a `Section` instance (either created outside and passed into the constructor, or created in the part itself).