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<chapter id="beaninfo">
<title>Describing a Bean</title>
<para>The BeanInfo provides a description of a POJO. This information allows
the microcontainer to know what can be done with the bean.</para>
<para>This is similar to the BeanInfo provided by the java.beans package but
some java environments like J2ME do not include this package because it has
dependencies on AWT.</para>
<sect1 id="beaninfofactory-overview" revision="1">
<title>BeanInfoFactory - retrieveing bean descriptions</title>
<para>The <literal>BeanInfoFactory</literal> is used to create BeanInfos for a given class.
<programlisting>BeanInfo getBeanInfo(String className)</programlisting>
The default implementation is the IntrospectionBeanInfoFactory which uses
reflection.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="beaninfo-overview" revision="1">
<title>BeanInfo - information about a bean</title>
<para>The BeanInfo provides top level information and access to the more
detailed information about the bean.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="propertyinfo-overview" revision="1">
<title>PropertyInfo - information about a property</title>
<para>The PropertyInfo describes an property, i.e. something that
follows the <programlisting>Type getX(); void setX(Type x)</programlisting>
javabean pattern.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="eventinfo-overview" revision="1">
<title>EventInfo - information about an event</title>
<para>The EventInfo describes an event.</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
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