Developing Java Beans: Introduction

Overview

As software developers, one is constantly being asked to build applications in less time and with less money. And, of course, these applications are expected to be better and faster than ever before. Object-oriented techniques and component software environments are in wide use now, in the hope that they can help one build applications more quickly. Development tools like Microsoft's Visual Basic have made it easier to build applications faster by taking a building-block approach to software development. Such tools provide a visual programming model that allows one to include software components rapidly in the applications. The JavaBeans architecture brings the component development model to Java, and that's the subject of this paper.