Question

I have a java program that will work with a variety of Java Beans. I’m interested in displaying a “property sheet” that will show the fields and methods for the bean from BeanInfo and/or reflection. It could also update the information from the bean.

Is there a built-in way of creating these property sheets? I was thinking something that would look like this: http://www.time-tripper.com/uipatterns/Property_Sheet. Is this a good way to go about designing a simple beans application or does someone have a better alternative maybe with annotations?

Thanks!

Answer 1

That is exactly what most GUI designers (e.g. NetBeans’ Matisse) will have for displaying the properties of Swing Beans. As NetBeans is open source, you can probably get what you’re looking for there