Java Beans

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module J812. This topic is presented on public course Java Programming for the Web

By using set naming conventions for your methods, you can write a Java class that has its functionality defined by the method name. Development environments used by the application programmer who's using your class can then examine your class and provide context-sensitive menus, help, icons etc.

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Examples from our training material

Cube.java

Java Bean example as used by Tag library (J907)

Background information

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Topics covered in this module

What are beans?.
A Java bean is not a class!.
Beanboxes.
Indexed, bound and constrained properties.
Auxiliary classes.
Sample Beans.
Tools.

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