com.atomikos.beans
Class BeanWizard

java.lang.Object
  com.atomikos.beans.BeanWizard

All Implemented Interfaces:

PropertyChangeListener, EventListener

public class BeanWizard
extends Object
implements PropertyChangeListener

A GUI setup tool for configuring arbitrary bean instances. This tool can be used by other GUI programs to setup the properties of an arbitrary bean. Afterwards, object serialization can be used to persist the bean and its settings. This tool can be combined with a Dialog: if the dialog is confirmed then getBean will return the bean as it was configured.

Constructor Summary

BeanWizard(Object bean)

Method Summary

Object	getBean() Get the bean.
JPanel	getPanel() Get the panel to display in the client program.
void	propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent event)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BeanWizard

public BeanWizard(Object bean)
           throws PropertyException

Throws:

PropertyException

Method Detail

getPanel

public JPanel getPanel()

Get the panel to display in the client program. This panel is the main panel for the wizard and allows setting the properties of the bean.

Returns:

JPanel The panel.

getBean

public Object getBean()

Get the bean. This method can be used to retrieve the bean after the user is done with the wizard.

Returns:

Object The bean instance.

propertyChange

public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent event)

Specified by:

propertyChange in interface PropertyChangeListener