JavaBean

Hi,

I've been looking all over the sun java tutorials, and a found the word 'bean'.
I'm from Flanders and i don't understand English very well, so i don't know what the word 'bean' means. Can someone simply explain me what a bean is?

Thank you,
Hannes

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Originally Posted by hannes

Can someone simply explain me what a bean is?

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Here's Sun's (Oracle's?) definition of a Java Bean.

kind regards,

Jos

Well, that's the problem, I do not understand what they are trying to say, thanks anyway.

Hannes

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Originally Posted by hannes

Well, that's the problem, I do not understand what they are trying to say, thanks anyway.

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What is it exactly you don't understand?

kind regards,

Jos

They say something about 'reusable software component'. Do they mean a real Java component( e.g. Jpanel) or something else?

Hannes

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Originally Posted by hannes

They say something about 'reusable software component'. Do they mean a real Java component( e.g. Jpanel) or something else?

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No, they mean components in general, not just Swing components. Swing components can be interpreted as being beans too but not every bean needs to be a visual component. The purpose of a bean is that you can rip it out of the surrounding code and plug it in somewhere else where it can be reused again.

kind regards,

Jos