The Bean pane appears when you choose the Bean tab at the bottom of the content pane. The pane contains several tabs you can choose to add and edit properties, event sets, BeanInfo classes, and property editors they generate code in the source code of the selected JavaBean.
If your selected file in the editor is an Enterprise JavaBean, a General tab, Properties tab, and Methods tab is available to you to edit the enterprise bean.
The General page displays general information about the bean and provides a check box to let you specify whether code to support serialization should be added to the bean.
The Properties page displays all properties existing in the current bean. Using the page, you can add new properties, edit existing ones, and remove properties you no longer want in your bean. As you edit properties, the changes are added to the source code of your bean.
You use the BeanInfo page to create a BeanInfo class for your JavaBean or simply to edit an existing BeanInfo. You can choose which properties to expose in the BeanInfo class for your bean. Those properties that are exposed in the bean's BeanInfo class will appear in the Inspector.
The Events page lets you specify which events you want your bean capable of firing and which events you want your bean to listen to. You can also use the page to create new event sets for your bean or to import existing event sets. As you make changes, code is generated in the source code of the bean.
The Property Editors page allows you to define custom property editors that can be used to edit properties in your JavaBean.
The Method page displays the public methods defined in an EJB 1.x enterprise bean. If you add business methods to your bean, you can use this page to select which ones you want exposed through the bean's remote interface.
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