What it does?

Maintaining bean patterns: The beans module provides support for identifying and maintaining bean patterns of particular classes in your project. This includes the following:

• Creating/editing bean patterns of a particular class.
  You can either use the standard NetBeans editor for creating bean patterns (e.g. getter and setter methods of properties) or a special dialog based customizer for the bean pattern you wish to add to your class.

• Identifying bean patterns in your code.
  The module analyzes each class and recognizes possible beans patterns in it. Patterns are displayed as child nodes of the module's "Bean Patterns" node in each class.

• BeanInfo Editor.
  There is a special action in popup menu of the BeanPatterns node which allows generating the BeanInfo. After generating the BeanInfo class you can edit it at any time. You can add/remove features form the BeanInfo or you change properties of the features.

  

If you want to know more about the Beans module from users perspective you can look at the Usersguide pages on-line.

• If you are interested in JavaBeans the good information source is http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/beans/index.html.
• If you want to know more about how the Beans module is designed/implemented look at Beans - developer info
• If you want to see it from the closest distance look at the sources on-line or check-it out from CVS and build your Beans module

If you have some interesting comments on the Beans module or if some of the bugs the right thing to do subscribe and post e-mails to NetBeans mailing lists. We appreciate any new features or improvements of the old ones. We also have some ideas what could be made better or what the nice new features would be. If you are interested, look at following "To Do" list.

• Fixing some bugs