Just Java™ 2, Fifth Edition

Chapter 24. Java Beans in Practice

• The Specification for Two Beans

• The Code for the ConverterField Bean

• The Code for DoItButton Bean

• Compile, Jar, And Load Classes Into Beanbox

• Bean Icons

• The Bean Info Class

• Descriptor Classes

• Properties

• Bound Properties

• Property Change Support for Non-Visual Beans

• Summary: Telling Another Bean About a Change in One of Your Values

• Connecting a Swing Event to a Method in Another Bean

• Hidden State

• The Completed, Integrated Rate Calculator

• Customizing More Complicated Properties

• Constrained Properties

• Calling A Method in Another Bean—Don’t Do It!

• Exercises

• Some Light Relief—Java’s Duke Mascot

• Complete Code Listings

In this chapter we ...