Description:
Like other Manning books, The Awesome Power of Java Beans is a competent text backed up by an exemplary collection of Web resources, including a newsgroup moderated by the author. In the book, Rodrigues does a decent job of explaining Bean technology, detailing the code that makes a Bean a Bean, and explaining how to create Beans using several popular development environments. His example programs include a progress indicator, a file selector, and several more academic examples. The book includes a chapter by a guest author about ActiveX controls and the various means of making Beans interrelate with them. This book's supporting Web site has a great deal of potential. On the Manning site, Rodrigues participates in the Beanie forum, in which he answers questions about Beans and his book. While not heavily visited, the site does feature some questions and answers that are intelligent and useful, if elementary. In addition to the forum, the site contains example files, errata, and an Adobe Acrobat copy of the book--everything you would expect to find on a companion CD-ROM, with the addition of author interactivity. --David Wall
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