A Map As a JavaBean Property

Question

I know how to create a JavaBean - zero argument constructor, private field variables, and public get and set methods to expose the properties.
Now, I have created a Map object:
Map map = new HashMap();
map.put("sort", sort);
map.put("order", order);
map.put("offset", offset); How do I store this object as a property of a JavaBean?
How do I later on retrieve what are in the 'map' from the JavaBean created?

Answer 1

just as easy as this :
class MyBean {
   private Map myMap;
   public void setMyMap( Map map ) {
      myMap = map;
   public Map getMyMap() {
      return myMap;
   // You can add more stuff if u want :
   public void addToMyMap( Object item ) {
      myMap.put( item );
   // and so on ...
}--Behrad