Java Bean help

[peter brews]

Dear All,
I have a 40 java bean each with about 20 -30 different get and set methods.
I want to get the names and values of all the methods in one bean at a time .
And then reformat that data.Is there any thing similar to jdbc getMeataData where you get column name s and it's values. I want to avoid writing 20-30 getProperty statements.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
peter

[Dave Landers]

Sounds like reflection.
Check out myBean.getClass().getMethods() which will return an array of java.lang.reflect.Method objects representing all the public methods defined in myBean. You can then walk thru them and test their names, parameters, return types, etc.
You can even use method.invoke() to run the methods.
Check out Sun's reflection tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/index.html

[Michael Ernest]

You can also download the Beanbox prototype tool from Sun. It has a Report feature that not only lists all the property-oriented methods in a Bean, but also groups the listings between Properties, Event Sets, and other methods. It also tags expert options and a few other things. It's part of the BDK which is available here.

[peter brews]

Thanks to both of you for all your help.
could you please help me what should i add to what i have now( i am going thorough the documents but it will take little long for me to get it to work)

WebServiceProxy proxy;
proxy = (WebServiceProxy) context.lookup("http://localhost/mywebsevice/wsdl.jsp");
SoapMethod method = proxy.getMethod("myremotemethod");
myjavabean result = ((myjavabean) method.invoke( new Object[]{  ("5764006"));
       Class c = result.getClass();
       Method[] theMethods = c.getMethods();
       for (int j = 0; j < theMethods.length; j++) {
         String methodString = theMethods[j].getName();
         if(methodString.indexOf("get")!= -1)
         {
            String methodval = methodString+"()";
 
            System.out.println("Name:" +methodString);
 
// What should I add to get values of get<properties> of the bean myjavabean
// The bean myjavabean  may another bean or may have array of strings as return values of 
// the  getProperty. Please advice
         }
      }
 
       } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("from excep1");
            e.printStackTrace();

Thanks,
peter
--edited for code format and capitalization. mfe --
[ November 15, 2002: Message edited by: Michael Ernest ]