Allowable Interaction with Component Models
6.1. Allowable Interactions with Component Models Before discussing interaction with some of the popular component models, it is important to understand which types of interactions are allowable. JMX MBeans are one example of a component model. Their interactions include executing MBean operations, referencing attributes, setting attributes and declaring explicit dependencies between named MBeans. The default behaviors and interactions in the Microcontainer are what you also normally get from any other Inversion of Control (IoC) container and are similar to the functionality provided by MBeans, including plain method invocations for operations, setters/getters for attributes and explicit dependencies.