Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: >+1 .. beans can only have no-args constructors; otherwise it breaks >the entire programming model they espouse. > > Do you have a definative reference for this? I see nothing in the spec that requires this, and conflicting information out on the web.
In particular, I find the following very informative: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/community/chat/OfficeHours/1999/oh0812.html - Sam Ruby