"A bean implementor who wishes to provide explicit
information about their bean may provide a 
BeanInfo class that implements this BeanInfo 
interface and provides explicit information about
the methods, properties, events, etc, of their bean. 

A bean implementor doesn't need to provide a
complete set of explicit information. You can pick
and choose which information you want to provide
and the rest will be obtained by automatic analysis
using low-level reflection of the bean classes' 
methods and applying standard design patterns.

You get the opportunity to provide lots and lots 
of different information as part of the various 
XyZDescriptor classes. But don't panic,
you only really need to provide the minimal core
information required by the various constructors. 

See also the SimpleBeanInfo class which provides
a convenient "noop" base class for BeanInfo 
classes, which you can override for
those specific places where you want to return
explicit info. 

To learn about all the behaviour of a bean see 
the Introspector class."


Figure 3