JavaBeans components, or Beans, are reusable SOFTWARE components that can be manipulated visually in a builder tool. Beans can be combined to CREATE traditional applications, or their smaller web-oriented brethren, applets. In addition, applets can be designed to work as reusable Beans.

INDIVIDUAL Beans will function quite differently, but typical unifying features that distinguish a Bean are:
► Introspection: enables a builder tool to ANALYZE how a Bean works.
► Customization: enables a developer to use an app builder tool to customize the appearance and behavior of a Bean.
► Events: enables Beans to communicate and connect together.
► Properties: enable developers to customize and program with Beans.
► Persistence: enables developers to customize Beans in an app builder, and then retrieve those Beans, with customized features intact, for FUTURE use.

JavaBeans components, or Beans, are reusable software components that can be manipulated visually in a builder tool. Beans can be combined to create traditional applications, or their smaller web-oriented brethren, applets. In addition, applets can be designed to work as reusable Beans.

Individual Beans will function quite differently, but typical unifying features that distinguish a Bean are:
► Introspection: enables a builder tool to analyze how a Bean works.
► Customization: enables a developer to use an app builder tool to customize the appearance and behavior of a Bean.
► Events: enables Beans to communicate and connect together.
► Properties: enable developers to customize and program with Beans.
► Persistence: enables developers to customize Beans in an app builder, and then retrieve those Beans, with customized features intact, for future use.