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JavaBeans An Architecture for Reusable Software Components

 

Ratings

Overall Rating:

4.3 stars
Content Quality: 4.5 stars
Effectiveness: 4.5 stars
Ease of Use: 4 stars
Reviewed: Nov 17, 2004 by Information Technology Editorial Board
Overview: This site is a beginner's/ intermediate guide to developing JavaBeans. The site
teaches the essentials for creating JavaBeans and has higher level tutorials to
deal with intermediate topics. The author explains the basic concepts behind all
JavaBeans and shows how these concepts relate to practical programming
techniques.
Learning Goals: The learning goal of this site is to familiarize the reader with a foundation of
how JavaBeans are created.
Target Student Population: College undergraduates and graduate students would be most suited for this
material.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills: Students should be well versed in understanding the basic Java environment, but
the author does an excellent job of doing a set-by-step overview to get the
student acclimated to making JavaBeans rapidly.
Type of Material: Tutorial with step-by-step screen shots of how to create JavaBeans.
Recommended Uses: The best use of this material would be to practice the tutorial ourside of lcass
to reinforce the class assignments and lectures.
Technical Requirements: Browser (It would be helpful to have the Java developer's program to help follow
along)

Evaluation and Observation

Content Quality

Rating: 4.5 stars
Strengths: This site has several tutorials that will help a student learn the architecture
to creating JavaBeans. The first portion allows you to work through the
introductory tutorial on JavaBeans, and you'll understand how to create and use
these self-contained, reusable software units. The second part of the JavaBeans
series looks at how to create, compile, test, and modify your JavaBeans. The
third section allows you to use the JavaBeans API to create independent,
reusable, platform-independent, marketable components.
Concerns: none

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

Rating: 4.5 stars
Strengths: This site provided very good information of the basics of JavaBeans and the API.
Concerns: This is a commercial site for Sun Systems, but the material is still very
helpful and solid in educational nature.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

Rating: 4 stars
Strengths: The site does a great job of showing the steps with screen shots of creating
JavaBeans and understanding the content fully.
Concerns:

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