Whenever there is an application to write, breaking it up to small pieces is a great idea. The smallest piece of any application would probably be a data object, or a simple Bean in Java. Java Beans are simple Java classes that have a distinctive look and behavior. Their simplest purpose is to contain data and they accomplish this by having properties. Each property is actually a data-member containing/referencing the actual data and a couple of methods, a getter method and a setter method. Thus, the simplest data-bean describing a person could be expressed as such: -Whenever there is an application to write, breaking it up to small pieces is a great idea. The smallest piece of any application would probably be a data object, or a simple Bean in Java. Java Beans are simple Java classes that have a distinctive look and behavior. Their simplest purpose is to contain data and they accomplish this by having properties. Each property is actually a data-member containing/referencing the actual data and a couple of methods, a getter method and a setter method. Thus, the simplest data-bean describing a person could be expressed as such: