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Goal is to provide platform-independent component architecture. Developer writes reusable software components and then puts together applications from components using a visual builder's tool.
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A Java Bean is a reusable component. It is different from an ordinary class because its method signatures and class definitions allow introspection (by the application builder's tool). Introspection can find
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properties - these can not only be inspected but set, to allow customization
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events
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Visual interface(BeanBox) accesses properties of individual Beans and can link them together to form complex programs
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Beans also allow persistence - a bean can be customized and then stored back to disk.
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A Bean implements the Java interface "Serializable" which allows the builder tool to work with design time and run time.
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