ContextBox: A BeanContext Development Kit
Version 1.0
Welcome to the BeanContext Development Kit (BcDK)
The BeanContext Development Kit (BcDK) is intended to support
the development of JavaBeansTM 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
BcDK provides a reference BeanContext container, the "ContextBox",
and adds some new features to the BDK1.1
which it extends. It supports nesting of both AWT components and BeanContext
components.
The BcDK 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 BcDK 0.9 release requires you to have installed the
Java
(TM) 2 SDK We recommend using Version 1.2.2 (or later.)
The BcDK is qualified for Solaris 2.6, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0.
However, the BcDK is "pure Java" and should run on any Java 2 SDK Version
1.2 enabled system.
Licensing Information
Check the BcDK
Licensing Terms for terms and conditions governing the use and
redistribution of the BcDK.
Sun is not responsible for any claims relating to use of the BcDK.
New Features
All new features in the ContextBox menu bar are
italic.
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Deserialize Component. This allows you to load any component that has been
previously serialized.
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Group. This allows you to freeze properties of components inside container
you are grouping.
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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 BcDK and
Changes from version 0.9
Keeping in Touch
If you have comments or feedback on the BcDK, please send them to java-beans@ccs.neu.edu.