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Making Components Portable with JavaBeans
/ Bean Builders
In the JavaBean world, there are many different styles of Bean-capable tools. The JavaSoft Beans Web pages contain a list of two dozen or more tools, either currently shipping or scheduled to be available shortly, that support JavaBean components. Included are the tr
aditional IDE-style builders, such as VisualAge for Java, from IBM; JBuilder, from Borland; and Java Workshop, from Sun Microsystems.
A large portion of Java code is contained within applets that are embedded in HTML pages. For the Web-pag
e builder or publisher, there are tools such as BeanMachine, from Lotus, and Java Studio. These tools offer palettes of Beans and drag-and-drop or spreadsheet-style interfaces, which make it simple for nonprogrammers to create applets from JavaBeans.
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Constructing an applet with Lotus BeanMachine is mostly a drag-and-drop process.
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