Using the BeanBox at design time

Lesson 5	Using the BeanBox at design time
Objective	Use BeanBox test container to customize example Beans

Let us insert a Bean into the BeanBox to get familiar with how the BeanBox works in design time mode.
Customize Design Time Bean

Click the link below to insert and customize a Bean in design time mode.
Customize Design Time Bean
The JavaBeans API makes it possible to write component software in the Java programming language.
Components are self-contained, reusable software units that can be visually composed into composite components, applets, applications, and servlets using visual application builder tools.

JavaBean components are known as Beans.

Components expose their features (for example, public methods and events) to builder tools for visual manipulation.
A Bean's features are exposed because feature names adhere to specific design patterns.
A "JavaBeans-enabled" builder tool can then examine the Bean's patterns, discern its features, and expose those features for visual manipulation.
A builder tool maintains Beans in a palette or toolbox.
You can select a Bean from the toolbox, drop it into a form, modify it's appearance and behavior, define its interaction with other Beans, and compose it and other Beans into an applet, application, or new Bean.
All this can be done without writing a line of code.
In the next lesson, the BlueButton Bean will be tested in runtime mode.