Types of Web Beans

All the characteristics of Web Beans apply to objects that extend the WebBean interface. In this section, you learn about the following objects:  

• ObjectBean  

• FolderBean  

• ReportBean  

• PromptsBean

In MicroStrategy Web products, different MicroStrategy objects are represented by different Web Beans. That is, a report is represented by a ReportBean, and a folder is represented by a FolderBean.

Most Web Beans such as a PromptsBean, ScheduleBean, and SubscriptionBean directly extend the WebBean interface. Some Web Beans such as ReportBean and DocumentBean extend a sub-class of WebBean called ObjectBean, which provides common property-access methods to each of the interfaces that extend ObjectBean.