Summary
When combined with an integrated development environment that supports them, JavaBeans enable rapid application development of Java programs.
Today, you learned about the underlying principles of reusable software components and how these principles are realized in Java. Putting these ideas into practice, you saw how Sun's JavaBeans Development Kit (BDK) can be used to work with existing beans, establish relationships between them, and create full Java programs.
Although you should seek a more capable development tool than the BDK for developing your own programs with JavaBeans, you can use the BDK to evaluate the applicability of beans to your own programming tasks.
You also should use the JavaBeans resources on the World Wide Web. Many ...
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