The online documentation is excellent but it doesn t compensate for a great reference manual. I recommend you buy a Java book when you purchase this product. Visual Cafe DDE comes with JavaBeans. These are components used as building blocks for applications similar to an ActiveX control from Microsoft. Usually they are small and have very specific functions.
Beans are great because they can be used over and over again like a subroutine.
Visual Cafe does allow you to create your own JavaBeans, but with over 100 JavaBeans included with Visual Cafe DDE you are way ahead of the game. That is more than any other compiler available. You may never need to create your own, but it s nice to know you can. Visual Cafee DDE also comes with classes. They can be dragged onto your forms and edited if needed but are useful just as they are.