Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart

With industry momentum behind the development of powerful tools and diverse components, the JavaBean component market is growing rapidly. It is important to promote commercial quality JavaBeans components and tools; namely, components that can be used and reused by different users in different tools, can interoperate with other components from other vendors and are robust and functionally complete. A JavaBean component, or simply a Bean, is a platform-neutral component architecture that extends Java's "Write Once, Run Anywhere"ª capability. With tools like Sun Microsystems' Java Studio, developers can easily create reusable JavaBeans components that can be reassembled to create a wide variety of applications from spreadsheets to chat programs. Following are some guidelines for Java Beans component developers to help ensure that the maximum level of component reuse i... (more)