The Beans Development Kit (BDK) is intended to support the development of JavaBeansTM components and to act as a standard reference base for both Bean developers and tool vendors. The BDK provides a reference Bean container, the "BeanBox" and a variety of reusable example source code (in the demo and BeanBox subdirectories) for use by both Bean developers and tools developers.
The BDK 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.
The BDK is qualified for Solaris 2.6, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0. However, the BDK is "pure Java" and should run on any Java 2 SDK Version 1.2 enabled system.
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