<A target="_blank" href="http://xpagesblog.com/xpages-blog/2010/7/5/writing-a-managed-bean-to-automate-server-side-functionality.html">Jeremy Hodge is starting a series of articles on how to create managed beans</A> you can use (and re-use) throughout your XPages applications. In this first article he defines what a "bean" is.