The Basics of Designing a JavaBean
All good programmers recognize the importance of the design phase in programming. Thus, you'll start out by addressing how to design a Bean. As you will learn later, the way in which you design your Bean directly affects the way it behaves in containers. For example, the names you choose for the methods should follow specific design specifications. If you start from the beginning with these rules in mind, allowing your Bean to participate in introspection does not require any additional programming on your part. The concept of introspection was introduced in Chapter 28, "Reflection," but you'll see more of how it relates to JavaBeans a little later.
Designing a Bean consists of the following steps:
Specifying ...
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