Java Beans have become an integral part of Java. Designing your programs with beans enforces a component based approach to your design, but there is an initial hurdle in understanding how to use Beans effectively. The Beans Development Kit(BDK) is a package supplied by Sun that can be used as a bases for learning what Beans can offer. It does this with a demonstration that can also be used to test Beans you create.
The best way to get a quick grasp of what its all about, and therefore speed the learning process is to start reading the documentation with the demonstration provided. The following section describes how to setup your environment to do this.
The next section is only applicable if you are working on the local network. If are located elsewhere either find local documentation on how to do it, or download the BDK for yourself it is written in 100% java so should work with any 1.1(or later) version of the JVM(splash.javasoft.com).
First make sure you have setup java in the correct
manner and have a browser running. The best place to start is
the BeanBox documentation,
and you should note that the directory you should be changing to
is "/home/java/extensions/BDK/bdk_jun98/beanbox/".
After playing with this for a while and you have a basic idea of
what is going on then you should look at the start of the documentation for more links that
take you to the Sun site.