The CSS engine

The CSS engine has different responsibilities at load time and at run time:
  • At load time: creating and customizing graphic objects and renderers
  • At run time: customizing the graphic objects according to model changes
Usually the left side of a declaration represents a bean property of the graphic object. The right side is a literal and, if it needs type conversion, the Java method s etAsText is invoked on the Property Editor associated with the bean property.