"Reusable software components that can be manipulated visually in a builder tool." |
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 |