They are Java's implementation of "component-based" visual programming |
This modern software engineering technique produces a new approach to libraries which become a "software component infrastructure(SCI)" |
There is a visual interface to discovery of and setting of values of and information about parameters used in a particular software component |
JavaBeans uses the event model of JDK1.1 to communicate between components |
One expects Javabeans to become the CORBA component interface (defining containers in CORBA) |
Enterprise Javabeans are extremely important server side version which are the Java way of building reuseable middleware |