Starting a JavaBean
		Note that these steps are taken from my IDE, Netbeans 3.3.  Since Sun ONE/Forte' is based on the open-source NetBeans products, these steps should be similar or the same. Running a query requires a small handfull of classes to instantiate and include.  This confused me as a novice, I just wanted a simple class to set my database properties and send my queries. Let's try to make a bean to do this.  We can set all of the database properties in the property window for the bean.   This really limits our flexibility, because we are essentially hardcoding the values in the class.   But it is another alternative we can use.   Also, given that beans are often used by novice programmers, we can make an assumption that this will be a fairly small-scale application. In the future, we can optimize this bean for database connection pooling, instantiation from properties files where the files are the properties we set, and perhaps even metadata. NetBeans gets you started with an example.  Simply choose New-Beans-Bean, and you get this source. To explain this source, we need to look at properties of beans.  Properties of Beans