Objectives
To demonstrate JavaBeans architecture.
Time Required
30 minutes to become familiar with the BeanBox interface.
Before You Begin
To add sample project to your workspace:
The Sun BDK Examples project will be added to your workspace, and the source code will be compiled.
Description
The Sun BDK Examples project contains the BeanBox and example beans that Sun
provides with the Beans Development Kit (BDK). The BeanBox is an application that
you can use to test and demonstrate JavaBeans, either the sample beans provided or ones
you create yourself. In this way, the BeanBox is similar to the VisualAge for Java Visual
Composition Editor. However, the BeanBox sample is not designed to be a development
tool, and does not have the extent of functionality that the Visual Composition Editor
has.
The BeanBox application has three windows:
Running the Sample
To run the BeanBox sample:
Doing More with the Sample
Other things you can do in the BeanBox include the following tasks:
For more information on what you can do with the BeanBox sample, see Sun's description of it at the following URL:
http://java.sun.com/beans/software/beanbox.html
For detailed descriptions of the example beans provided in the BDK Examples, see Sun's information at the following URL:
http://java.sun.com/beans/software/examples.html