From JavaBeans and Use in ComponentWare Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- March 25 1998. byNancy McCracken, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski
BeanInfo can supply
an icon to represent Bean
a list of supported properties, events and methods with a short (help) description of them
the default property event or method
custom property editors for all or some of properties of the Bean
BeanDescriptor is one of entities you can get from BeanInfo and this holds overall information about the Bean