The Java™ Beans view
of the visual editor for Java shows
a navigation tree of the components, events, and listeners used by
the Java class that you are
composing. You can use this view to work with the components.
By default, the Java Beans
view is automatically opened each time the visual editor for Java is launched, unless you have
changed your preferences.

The following are key features of the Java Beans
view:
- You can use the Java Beans
view to directly work with the beans. By right-clicking on a component
in the Java Beans view, you
can perform various actions such as cut, copy and paste, delete, and
update text.
- You can drag components to reorder and nest them.
- The selection between the Java Beans
view and the Design view is synchronized both ways. If you select
items in the Design view, they are also selected in the Java Beans view.
- In the Java Beans view,
the icon shown for the entry is the same icon used in the palette
to represent the component type.
- The label for each component in the Java Beans
view is the name of the instance variable that is used in the Java code for the component. For
some types of components, the label also contains details from the
instance itself, for example the text of a button or label.
Note: A special part called this is shown on the Java Beans view to represent the
instance of the class itself that is being composed. You cannot delete
the this element.