JavaBeans Unleashed

Providing a Bean Customizer

Provide beans with graphical user interfaces for easy configuration by creating an associated object implementing the java.beans.Customizer interface. A bean customizer goes beyond property editors by providing an easy-to-use graphic interface for changing a wide range of bean options. Create your own customizer interfaces, or use some of the standard interfaces provided by the Java platform. In this section, you write a simple bean that supplies a customizer interface for choosing its background colors using the standard javax.swing.JColorChooser class.

Creating a Bean

You can associate a customizer with any Java bean. For this example, create a bean that displays the word "Hello" on a small piece of canvas. The source ...