Development Tools

The best way to understand JavaBeans is to work with them in a programming environment that supports bean development.

Bean programming requires an environment with a fairly sophisticated graphical user interface because much of the development work is done visually. In an integrated development environment such as Symantec Visual Café, you can establish a relationship between two beans in an interface by dragging a line between them with your mouse.

The tools in the Software Development Kit are almost exclusively used from the command line without a graphical interface. Because of this, you need a different programming tool to develop JavaBeans when using the SDK tools. Most of the commercially available Java development tools ...

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