William Wright

One of the great things about the JavaBeans specification is the flexibility it affords component developers in how they package their beans. As a bean developer, all you need is a class with a no-argument constructor that supports serialization and it's a bean. If you follow some simple naming conventions, most integrated development environments (IDEs) can tell enough about your bean to be able to use it for visual application development. While this is sufficient for some simple beans, the beans specification also provides ways for bean developers to explicitly give information that the IDE can use to assist the application developer in using the component. This article explores some of the ways that bean developers can make their components more usable by applicatio... (more)

Agent-Based Computing in Java

Extremely large, complex software systems stretch the limits of modern design and implementation techniques. Agent-based computing is an approach to design and implementation that facilitates the design and development of sophisticated systems by viewing them as a society of independent communicating agents working together to meet the goals of the system. Java programming language's ric... (more)