JavaBean (JavaBeans - Java Controls) / Oracle / SUN (Oracle Tools & Oracle Components) - A-Z

What is a JavaBean? A JavaBean or Java Bean is a reusable software component that works with Java and allows you to rapidly add functionality to your Java application. JavaBeans are usually visual in nature and are used to provide user interface (UI) control and input into to a Java app. These Java Controls or Java Widgets give you the ability to carry out data entry functions, take in user input to control your application and to display data outputs to the end user as text, in a graphical manner or as an image.

A Java IDE (Integrated Development Environment) or Java builder tool can examine the properties or attributes of a JavaBean, using introspection, to understand how a JavaBean works. The Java programmer can then use these properties at design-time inside the Java IDE to create and enhance the UI for the application. The Java app can then use the properties and methods of that JavaBean at run-time to make the JavaBean carry out certain pre-defined functions, such as displaying calendar data for a scheduling and planning application and then interact with the user to change the dates or re-schedule certain activities or tasks.

The JavaBeans listed in this Java Bean product gallery may be used for: displaying a calendar, planning & scheduling, selecting dates, resource planning, displaying data in a Java datagrid or Java datatable, displaying charts, displaying barcodes, displaying an image etc. Plus there are numerous Java widgets or Java controls to display input controls such as: buttons, toolbars, sliders, combo boxes, as well as Java treeview & Java listbox products and many more Java UI controls.

In this Oracle software product gallery you will find products that are compatible with: Oracle software platforms and frameworks, Oracle databases, Oracle application servers and Oracle Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Oracle Corporation (ORCL) acquired SUN Microsystems, completing the deal on Jan 27, 2010, plus Oracle had previously acquired BEA Systems completing that deal on Apr 29, 2008. So in this Oracle marketplace, you will also find products that are compatible with SUN Microsystems (JAVA) software products and databases, as well as products that work with BEA Systems (BEAS) software products and BEA application servers.

So you will find: Oracle tools, Oracle utilities, Oracle addins and Oracle db admin tools to help with day to day Oracle database management tasks and common Oracle DBA activities. For Oracle developers you will also find Oracle components, Oracle extensions, Oracle plugins and Oracle developments tools to help make your more productive when writing your next Oracle software project. There are also Oracle components that are available as products to use in your next Oracle app, these Oracle libraries are usually made available as an Oracle Java Class or as an Oracle JavaBean.

The Oracle dev tools can be: searched for on our Web site, evaluated using the Oracle downloads that we have for each product, compared with other Oracle utility or Oracle dev tool products, before you make any purchasing decision. You can also read what your fellow Oracle developers thought about the Oracle tool they downloaded by reading our Oracle reviews. You can also buy, download and license these Oracle tools and Oracle components directly from our Web site.

Finally, we have several Oracle News feeds for each type of Oracle product from the Oracle product range, these News feeds are published as Oracle News pages and also available as Oracle RSS data feeds, so that you can keep up to date with new third party products releases that are compatible with the Oracle software product range.