JavaBeans

Some of the classes in JCICS may be used as JavaBeans, which means that they can be customized in an application development tool such as WebSphere Studio Application Developer, serialized, and manipulated using the JavaBeans API. The JavaBeans in JCICS are currently:
These beans do not define any events; they consist of properties and methods. They can be instantiated at run-time in one of three ways:
  1. By calling the new method for the class itself. (This is the recommended way.)
  2. By calling Beans.instantiate() for the name of the class, with property values set manually.
  3. By calling Beans.instantiate() of a .ser file, with property values set at design time.

If either of the first two options are chosen, then the property values, including the name of the CICS resource, must be set by invoking the appropriate “set” methods at run-time.