Using the Web Beans API

The Web Beans API contains objects that represent the logical data elements of the MicroStrategy system such as reports, folders, and prompts. These objects represent conceptual MicroStrategy objects and provide access to a variety of underlying Web objects. Collection and manipulation of the object data is performed using the Web Beans API.

Web beans conform to the JavaBean standard. They provide methods for instantiation and data collection, and they provide standardized mechanisms for data rendering and state management.

All classes in the Web Beans API are contained entirely in the WebBeans.jar file and belong to the

com.microstrategy.web.beans package. For MicroStrategy Web products in a J2EE environment, the default location for WebBeans.jar is the WEB-INF/lib folder. For MicroStrategy Web products in a .NET environment, the default location is the Common Files/MicroStrategy folder.

See also

• Architecture: Web beans layer  

• Architecture: Web transforms layer  

• Page content and layout: Types of beans in MicroStrategy Web  

• Customizing transforms: Web beans and transforms