Title: Technology and bad writing have consigned this book to the trash heap
Review: This book, which purports to be from "the ground up" actually spends most of its text on building bean *content*. If you just want to know the ins-and-outs of building a bean, testing the bean, creating a JAR file, and loading and calling the JAR file in an application, this book is shockingly lacking in that most vital of information needed by a beginner JavaBean writer. Worse yet, the book is hopelessly out of date. The Bean Development Kit it uses for testing beans is no longer supported by Sun Microsystems. The new IDE, Netbeans, is not even mentioned in this text. Lastly, I found this book hard to read. This text is dead, and its death was not pretty. Do not buy this book.
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