Handling Thin-Bean Events

The BI Beans thin beans render HTML, and that HTML includes hyperlinks that users can click. When a user clicks one of these hyperlinks, an event is sent to the servlet. The servlet must route the event to an appropriate handler for the event.

Events are handled by one of the following:

When a thin bean handles an event, the event can change the state of the thin bean. These state changes are important if you plan to support bookmarks or the use of the Back button in your HTML-client application. You should be careful to manage the state of the thin beans.