Important topics covered in this book include:
1. Designing beans
2. Developing design-time classes
-BeanInfo classes, Property Editors and Customizers
3. Applets and Beans
4. JavaBeans Packaging
5. JavaBeans and ActiveX
6. Building beans using tools
7. Glasgow and InfoBus
The book has several useful beans. Here is a list:
JDBC Bean
Printer Bean
Spreadsheet Bean
Plotter Beans:
- Line, Bar, and Pie chart
- XY Plot and Histogram
Image Visualization Beans:
- Image Loader
- Image Viewport
- Image Display, Pan/Zoom
- Image Rotator bean/applet
- Java Archive Bean
- Jar Image Browser
The source code is available for download from the publisher's site.