JavaBeans Unleashed

Summary

Application developers who use your beans will usually depend entirely on the graphic representation of your bean presented by an application builder. Therefore, it's usually beneficial to go beyond the default automatic introspection provided for beans and customize the way visual application builder environments present your bean's properties, events, and methods. In this chapter, you learned how to polish up beans and make them ready to use in application builders. You learned how to make beans more professional looking and easier to use by adding graphic icons, controlling the visibility of their properties, and adding custom property editors. You also learned how to add customizers to your beans to make it easy for users to perform ...