JavaBeans Concepts and the Beans Development Kit

BDK Contents

Here is a general description of the BDK files and directories:

• README.html contains an entry point to the BDK documentation

• LICENSE.html contains the BDK license agreement

• GNUmakefile and Makefile are Unix and Windows makefiles (.gmk and .mk suffixes) for building the demos and the BeanBox, and for running the BeanBox

• beans/apis contains
  • a java directory containing JavaBeans source files
  • a sun directory containing property editor source files

• beans/beanbox contains
  • makefiles for building the BeanBox
  • scripts for running the BeanBox
  • a classes directory containing the BeanBox class files
  • a lib directory containing a BeanBox support jar file used by MakeApplet's produced code
  • sun and sunw directories containing BeanBox source (.java) files
  • a tmp directory containing automatically generated event adapter source and class files, .ser files, and applet files automatically generated by MakeApplet

• beans/demos contains
  • makefiles for building the demo Beans
  • an html directory containing an applet wrapper demonstration that must be run in appletviewer, HotJava, or JDK1.1-compliant browsers
  • a sunw directory containing
    • a wrapper directory containing a bean applet wrapper
    • a demos directory containing demo source file

• beans/doc contains
  • demos documentation
  • a javadoc directory containing JavaBeans and JavaBeans-related class and interface documentation
  • miscellaneous documentation

• beans/jars contains jar files for demo Beans

JavaBeans Concepts and the Beans Development Kit