Who should attend: Software developers who have non-trivial experience in programming with Java and want to learn the basic concepts of the Java component model. The goal of this tutorial is to apply these concepts to the attendees' daily programming work.

In this tutorial, we present the basics of components and especially of the Java component model: Java Beans. The tutorial outlines the architecture of Java Beans and its basics: properties, events, methods, serialization, and packaging. All material will be presented using simple Beans created by the author. We will also demonstrate the principles of more advanced Beans concepts like "data-aware" Beans. The example Beans will also utilize the new Swing UI components.

A key problem with Java Beans is their integration into the different builder tools. The course will discuss this issue and demonstrate "Java Studio" and "Visual Cafe 3.0" as two quite different examples of such tools. This section will also critically reflect some of the shortcomings with Java Beans.

After completing this tutorial, participants will be able to develop their own Beans.