The Context Beans Development Kit

Version 0.9

Welcome to the Context Beans Development Kit (CBDK)

The Context Beans Development Kit (CBDK) is intended to support the development of JavaBeans^TM components that implement Extensible Runtime Containment and Services Protocol (BeanContext) and to act as a standard reference base for both Bean developers and tool vendors. The CBDK provides a reference BeanContext container, the "ContextBeanBox", and adds some new features to the BDK1.1 which it extends. It supports nesting of both AWT components and BeanContext components.

The CBDK is not intended for use by application developers, nor is it intended to be a full-fledged application development environment. Instead application developers should check the various Java application development environments supporting JavaBeans.

System Requirements

This CBDK 0.9 release requires you to have installed the Java (TM) 2 SDK We recommend using Version 1.2.2 (or later.)

The CBDK is qualified for Solaris 2.6, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0. However, the CBDK is "pure Java" and should run on any Java 2 SDK Version 1.2 enabled system.

Licensing Information

Check the CBDK Licensing Terms for terms and conditions governing the use and redistribution of the CBDK.
Sun is not responsible for any claims relating to use of the CBDK.

New Features

All new features in the ContextBeanBox menu bar are italic.

Deserialize Component. This allows you to load any component that has been previously serialized.
Group. This allows you to freeze properties of components inside container you are grouping.
Ungroup. This allows you to costumize properties of components inside container you grouped, or loaded as a bean.

And at our web site...

There is also additional information at our web site, including newest version of CBDK and

A tutorial explaining new features in the ContextBeanBox.
Links to related specifications.

Keeping in Touch

If you have comments or feedback on the CBDK, please send them to java-beans@ccs.neu.edu.