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RESOURCES

• Index
• Preface
• Table of Contents

DESCRIPTION

Build your own bean? Or use one that's ready-made? The Awesome Power of Java Beans provides the details on both. Either way, the power of Java Beans is awesome: once created, your beans run anywhere-- ceven masquerading as an ActiveX control.

The Awesome Power of Java Beans shows you how to use not only BeanBox, but also such tools as VisualAge WebRunner, JBuilder and PowerJ. And there's a wide-ranging selection of completed and tested beans for you to use in your applications

If you're a Java programmer, teacher or student, or if you design software systems using Java Beans, this book will be a valuable resource.

What's inside:

• A complete description of the JavaBeans model
• Bean design and detailed implementation
• "Glasglow" and Infobus specs
• Writing beans as applets or converting to applets
• Converting your ActiveX Control to a bean
• Convert your bean to an ActiveX Control
• Running it in VB or Internet Explorer
• Custom property editors and customizers
• Unique source of useful beans

This book contains general purpose beans for

• charting
• plotting
• printing
• spreadsheet
• image loading
• image display
• image manipulation

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK...

"The author does a great job covering areas like BeanInfo, feature descriptors and design time utilities that tend to be glossed over in other books."
--John Clingan, Java Specialist, Sun Microsystems

"The book has a very tight focus on beans, and beans only... much more complete than other bean books."
--Piroz Mohseni, Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies

"The discussion of class libraries vs. beans clears up a confusing issue for many developers. This book is a valuable resource."
--Larry Perlstein, Principal Analyst, Dataquest (A GartnerGroup Company)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR...

Lawrence Rodrigues is a designer and developer currently working on Java Beans for a Java/CORBA project. He has developed a variety of sophisticated applications including a Java medical image viewer and a Java/CORBA-based database access system.

Sample Chapters

A sampler of chapters from the book is available for download.

Chapter Sampler

Source Code

The source code and bean files from The Awesome Power of Java Beans is contained in three zip archives. Free unzip programs for most platforms are available at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip.

Download the Part I source code (257 kilobytes)

Download the Part II source code (2316 kilobytes)

Download the beans files (937 kilobytes)