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.
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)
Identify Major 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.
Content Quality
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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
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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
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Strengths:
The site does a great job of showing the steps with screen shots of creating JavaBeans and understanding the content fully.
Creative Commons:
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