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 you to include software components rapidly in your applications. | Team OR 2001 x java Dedication. 2 Preface. 2 Intended Audience. 3 A Moment in Time. 3 How the Book Is Organized. 3 Conventions Used in This Book. 5 Acknowledgments. 5 How to Contact Us. 6 Providing Feedback to the Author. 6 Retrieving Examples Online . 6 Chapter 1. Introduction. 6 The Component Model. 7 The JavaBeans Architecture. 9 JavaBeans Overview. 11 Using Design Patterns. 14 JavaBeans vs. ActiveX. 14 Getting Started. 15 Chapter 2. Events. 15 The Java Event Model . 15 Events in the AWT Package. 25 Chapter 3. Event Adapters. 30 Demultiplexing. 30 Generic Adapters. 35 Event Adapters in the AWT Package . 40 Event Filtering . 43 Event Queuing . 44 Chapter 4. Properties. 50 Accessing Properties. 50 Indexed Properties. 53 Bound Properties. 55 Constrained Properties. 60 Handling Events for Specific Properties. 64 A Example. 64 Chapter 5. Persistence. 70 Object Serialization. 71 The Interface. 72 Class-Specific Serialization. 78 Walking the Class Hierarchy. 79 Serializing Event Listeners. 90 Versioning. 92 Object Validation. 94 The Interface. 96 Instantiating Serialized Objects . 99 Chapter 6. JAR Files. 102 The jar Program. 102 The Manifest. 104 Using JAR Files with HTML. 106 Using JAR Files on the CLASSPATH. 107 Archive Signing. . 108 An Alternative to the jar Program. 108 Chapter 7. The BeanBox Tool. 109 Running BeanBox. . 109 Dropping Beans on BeanBox. 111 Editing a Bean s Properties. 111 Hooking Up Beans. 113 Saving and Restoring the BeanBox Form. 115 Adding Your Own Beans to BeanBox. 115 Chapter 8. Putting It All Together. 116 Defining the Temperature Control Simulator. 117 Building the Simulator. 118 A Sample Simulator Applet. 145 Creating a JAR File. 147 Recreating the Sample Using BeanBox. 148 Chapter 9. Introspection. 150 The BeanInfo Interface . 150 Providing Additional BeanInfo Objects . 166 Introspecting the Environment . 168 The Classes. 169 Chapter 10. Property Editors and
