Javabeans Developer's Resource (Prentice Hall Developer's Resource Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0138873089 ISBN 13: 9780138873080

Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr, 1997

A book/CD-ROM package on designing, developing, and using Java components. Covers basic and advanced concepts of JavaBeans, with code examples building on one another from chapter to chapter. Includes material on basic language constructs, the JavaBeans event model, the GUI builder, and JavaBean integration with ActiveX and JavaScript, plus light-hearted sidebars on the history of coffee. Assumes familiarity with fundamentals of object-oriented programming and Java. The CD-ROM contains tools for JavaBeans development. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

From the Back Cover:

Discover JavaBeans: the practical, secure way to build component software!
The JavaBeans API will be pivotal in helping companies transition from monolithic applications to secure collections of distributed, networked mini-applications. No Java API is more important—or more exciting.
With JavaBeans Developer's Resource, you'll learn all you need to know to design, develop and use Java Components—straight from a JavaBeans developer intimately familiar with both the Microsoft and Sun JavaBeans development environments.
Review the basic concepts underlying all component software, and then take a close look at the fundamentals of the JavaBeans API, including bean properties, events, introspection, and persistence. Then, discover how JavaBeans goes far beyond previous component models. Learn about the customization and introspection routines that make JavaBeans components both powerful and seamless.
Walk step by step through the construction and reuse of JavaBeans components, using extensive examples, code samples, and several complete Beans components on CD-ROM. Learn to use the GUI Builder to assemble disparate Beans into applications or applets. Compare powerful visual development tools like Penumbra Software's Mojo and Symantec's Visual Café—and learn how they can help you build JavaBeans without ever seeing source code.
JavaBeans Developer's Resource will help you understand and make the most of JavaBeans networking, including RMI and CORBA. You'll learn how to integrate JavaBeans with ActiveX components. Finally, there's detailed coverage of how JavaBeans are already being used in the “real world” to enable powerful, secure applications that simply weren't possible before.
If you work with Java, JavaBeans will dramatically extend your power. With JavaBeans, components have finally come of age—and JavaBeans Developer's Resource is your authoritative guide to making the most of them.
The accompanying CD-ROM contains indispensable tools for JavaBeans development, including:
*Java Development Kit 1.1 for Solaris, Windows 95, and Windows NT, with all the Beans classes and objects you need.

*The Beans Development Kit, with sample container and several example Beans demonstrating reflection, serialization, and GUI merging.

About the Author:

PRASHANT SRIDHARAN is a Product Manager for Java and Java Tools at the Microsoft Corporation. He is the author of Advanced Java Networking and a former Sun Microsystems Java Evangelist.