JavaBeans Unleashed

Summary

This chapter has shown you how quick and easy it is to add full multimedia support to your applets and JavaBeans. Anything from a simple sound loop to full image manipulation is possible. With the advent of fast JVMs and with multimedia support on PCs almost a standard, adding multimedia components to your applications and Web pages can enhance the effectiveness immensely. Beyond simply adding a little spice to an otherwise dull Web page, multimedia can provide valuable feedback; also, it can both attract and retain the attention of the viewer.

With many companies now providing an almost endless supply of third-party multimedia JavaBeans, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination. Java beans are simple to integrate, which ...