Presenting JavaBeans offer a clear assessment from the JavaBeans at a conceptual level and clear instructions on how to program with them. The author begins with JavaBeans as a component model, along with other models such as ActiveX and CORBA. He then went on to basic JavaBeans like introspection, event handling, persistence, and even support the application builder - a feature that allows developers to add Bean wizard to automate the design with JavaBeans. He provides code for working Beans actually for the "good", a bar meter, and a Bean audio players, which also shows how you can work with multimedia in JavaBeans. The books complete with handy quick reference for the common JDK 1.1 API.