about the book

The Awesome Power of Java Beans shows you how to use not only BeanBox, but also such tools as VisualAge WebRunner, JBuilder and PowerJ. And there's a wide-ranging selection of completed and tested beans for you to use in your applications.

what's inside

• A complete description of the JavaBeans model
• Bean design and detailed implementation
• "Glasglow" and Infobus specs
• Writing beans as applets or converting to applets
• Converting your ActiveX Control to a bean
• Convert your bean to an ActiveX Control
• Running it in VB or Internet Explorer
• Custom property editors and customizers
• Unique source of useful beans

This book contains general purpose beans for:

• charting
• plotting
• printing
• spreadsheet
• image loading
• image display
• image manipulation

about the reader

If you're a Java programmer, teacher or student, or if you design software systems using Java Beans, this book will be a valuable resource.

about the author

Lawrence Rodrigues is a designer and developer currently working on Java Beans for a Java/CORBA project. He has developed a variety of sophisticated applications including a Java medical image viewer and a Java/CORBA-based database access system.