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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> |
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Contains classes related to developing |
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<em>beans</em> -- components |
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based on the JavaBeans™ architecture. |
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A few of the |
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classes are used by beans while they run in an application. |
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For example, the event classes are |
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used by beans that fire property and vetoable change |
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events (see |
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{@link java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent}). However, most of the classes in this
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package are meant to be used by a bean editor (that is, a development environment |
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for customizing and putting together beans to create an application). In |
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particular, these classes help the bean editor create a user |
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interface that the user can use to customize the bean. For example, a bean may |
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contain a property of a special type that a bean editor may not know how to handle. |
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By using the <code>PropertyEditor</code> interface, a bean developer can |
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provide an editor for this special type. |
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To minimize the resources used by a bean, the classes used by bean editors are loaded only |
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when the bean is being edited. They are not needed while the bean is running in an application |
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and therefore not loaded. This information is kept in what's called a bean-info (see {@link java.beans.BeanInfo}).
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<p> |
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Unless explicitly stated, null values or empty Strings are not valid |
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parameters for the methods in this package. You may expect to see |
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exceptions if these parameters are used. |
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<h2>Long-Term Persistence</h2> |
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As of v1.4, |
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the <code>java.beans</code> package provides support for |
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<em>long-term persistence</em> -- reading and |
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writing a bean as a textual representation of its property values. |
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The property values are treated as beans, |
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and are recursively read or written to capture |
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their publicly available state. |
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This approach is suitable for long-term storage |
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because it relies only on public API, |
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rather than the likely-to-change private implementation. |
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<blockquote> |
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<b>Note:</b> |
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The persistence scheme cannot automatically instantiate |
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custom inner classes, such as you might use for event handlers. |
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By using the {@link java.beans.EventHandler} class
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instead of inner classes for custom event handlers, |
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you can avoid this problem. |
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</blockquote> |
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<p> |
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You read and write beans in XML format using the |
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{@link java.beans.XMLDecoder}
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and |
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{@link java.beans.XMLEncoder}
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classes, respectively. |
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One notable feature of the persistence scheme is that |
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reading in a bean requires no special knowledge of the bean. |
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Writing out a bean, on the other hand, |
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sometimes requires special knowledge of the bean's type. |
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If the bean's state can be |
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expressed using only the no-argument constructor and |
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public getter and setter methods for properties, |
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no special knowledge is required. |
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Otherwise, the bean requires a custom <em>persistence delegate</em> -- |
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an object that is in charge of writing out beans of a particular type. |
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All classes provided in the JDK that descend |
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from <code>java.awt.Component</code>, |
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as well as all their properties, |
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automatically have persistence delegates. |
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If you need (or choose) to provide a persistence delegate for a bean, |
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you can do so either by using a |
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{@link java.beans.DefaultPersistenceDelegate}
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instance |
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or by creating your own subclass of <code>PersistenceDelegate</code>. |
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If the only reason a bean needs a persistence delegate |
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is because you want to invoke the bean's constructor with |
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property values as arguments, |
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you can create the bean's persistence delegate |
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with the one-argument |
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<code>DefaultPersistenceDelegate</code> |
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constructor. |
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Otherwise, |
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you need to implement your own persistence delegate, |
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for which you're likely to need the following classes: |
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<dt> {@link java.beans.PersistenceDelegate}
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<dd> The abstract class from which all persistence delegates descend. |
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Your subclass should use its knowledge of the bean's type to provide |
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whatever <code>Statement</code>s and <code>Expression</code>s |
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are necessary to create the bean |
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and restore its state. |
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<dt> {@link java.beans.Statement}
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<dd> Represents the invocation of a single method on an object. |
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Includes a set of arguments to the method. |
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<dt> {@link java.beans.Expression}
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<dd> A subclass of <code>Statement</code> |
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used for methods that return a value. |
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</dl> |
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Once you create a persistence delegate, |
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you register it using the |
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<code>setPersistenceDelegate</code> method of |
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<code>XMLEncoder</code>. |
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<h2>Related Documentation</h2> |
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For overview, architecture, and tutorial documentation, please see: |
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<li><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/javabeans/">JavaBeans</a>, a trail in <em>The Java Tutorial</em>. |
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<li><a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/persistence2/">Long-Term Persistence</a>, an article in <em>The Swing Connection</em>. |
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