Use a JMenu bean
to provide a set of related choices for a window or component. You can
add the menu either as a pull-down menu for a menu bar or as a cascade menu
for another menu. You can also add subclasses of AbstractAction to the
free-form surface and add them to the menu in the menu get method.
Adding a menu or tool bar
Sun's JMenu bean documentation
Menu and tool bar beans
Beans for visual composition