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Bug 160937

Summary:	Provide visual indication for non-public beans
Product:	java	Reporter:	misterm <misterm>
Component:	Beans	Assignee:	Jan Becicka <jbecicka>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description misterm 2009-03-23 19:06:33 UTC

Bean Patterns displays properties and events for non-public classes, which is correct according to the normative 
section of the JavaBeans Specification but against is intent as expressed in the descriptive section.

Non-public classes' properties, events and methods are only accessible using reflection if called from a class from the 
same package, which is pretty useless most of the time and generally a mistake since NB hints create non-public classes 
for non-existing classes.

Therefore, there should be some sort of visual indication in Bean Patterns and some explanation in a tooltip that makes 
it clear this bean's properties and events are not generally visible.

Comment 1 Jan Pokorsky 2009-03-24 20:17:28 UTC

It is rather an enhancement than a bug.