JoltBeans provides a limited set of Jolt-enabled GUI components. You can also use controls that are not Jolt-enabled together with the JoltServiceBean. You can link controls to the JoltServiceBean that display output information of the service represented by the JoltServiceBean. You can also link controls that display input information.

For example, a GUI element that uses an adapter class to implement the JoltOutputListener interface can listen to JoltOutputEvents. The JoltServiceBean as the event source for JoltOutputEvents calls the serviceReturned() method of the adapter class when it sends a JoltOutputEvent. Inside serviceReturned(), the control’s internal data is updated using information from the event object.

The development tool generates the adapter class when the JoltServiceBean and the GUI element are wired together.

As another example, a GUI element can call the setInputTextValue() method on the JoltServiceBean. The GUI element contains input data for the Oracle Tuxedo service represented by the JoltServiceBean.

As a third example, a GUI element can implement the required methods (addJoltInputListener() and removeJoltInputListener()) to act as event sources for JoltInputEvents. The JoltServiceBean acts as an event listener for these events. The control sends a JoltInputEvent when its own state changes to keep the JoltServiceBean updated with the input information.