JavaBeans developer's resource

With JavaBeans Developer's Resource, you'll learn all you need to know to design, develop, and use Java componentsstraight from a JavaBeans developer intimately familiar with both the Microsoft and Sun JavaBeans development environments.

Review the basic concepts underlying all component software, and then take a close look at all fundamentals of the JavaBeans API, including bean properties, events, introspection, and persistence. Then, discover how JavaBeans goes far beyond previous component models. Learn about the customization and introspection routines that make JavaBeans components both powerful and seamless.

Walk step-by-step through the construction and reuse of JavaBeans components, using extensive examples, code samples, and several complete Beans components on CD-ROM. Learn to use the GUI builder to assemble disparate Beans into applications of applets. Compare powerful visual development tools like Penumbra Software's Mojo and Symantec's Visual Cafe - and learn how they can help you build JavaBeans without ever seeing source code.

JavaBeans Developer's Resource will help you understand and make the most of JavaBeans networking, including RMI and CORBA. You'll learn how to integrate JavaBeans with ActiveX components. Finally there's detailed coverage of how JavaBeans are already being used in the "real world" to enable powerful, secure applications that simply weren't possible before.