JavaBeans Unleashed

Chapter 25. Customization

In This Chapter

• Displaying a Bean Icon

• Controlling Visible Properties

• Providing Custom Text-Based Property Editors

• Providing a Bean Customizer

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You can provide special tools, such as customized property editors, with your bean so that various visual testing and development environments display them after the introspection of the bean. JavaBeans-compatible application builders (such as Visual Café and JBuilder) perform introspection on your beans and display your bean's properties, events, and public methods according to the rules set down by the JavaBeans design patterns. You can customize your bean ...