Well not really.

Any of us pre-web people might remember a nifty new language called Java that made a splash on the world just as the web was beginning.

The time I first started with JavaBeans there where a set of I think about 75 encapsulated GUI objects in a 'jar' file, get it 'a jar of beans' or at least that is what the myth is*.

Anyway one was suppose to use these beans to assemble you GUI program, and this was to lead to all sorts of time saving as you could just re-use componetes for all sorts of projects. I think in my about 7 years programming with Java I n…