This is not a question but I thought it might give people what you can do with JavaBean technology. I've built a coding-less visual programming environment using Java/JavaBeans technologies. This is just like Sun's Java Studio and/or BeanBox but it only uses Java and JavaBeans technologies and allows you to buiild bean/applet/application. This is not a commercial product. I designed it as a part of GeoVISTA Studio project (Geographycal Data Analysis and Visualization tool). However, the JBeanStudio (Stuio engine) itself can be used as a bean builder. If you are interested in it, you can try it out from http://www.geovistastudio.psu.edu/JBeanStudio. Java Web Start is used to deploy JBeanStudio (and GeoVISTA Stud   More>>