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Trail: JavaBeans(TM)
Lesson: JavaBeans Concepts and the Beans Development Kit

## The Beans Development Kit

> The BDK is delivered separately from the JDK. You can `download the BDK` freely from the JavaBeans web site.This site contains instructions for installing the BDK on your system. Here is a general description of the BDK files and directories:
> - `README.html` contains an entry point to the BDK documentation

> - `LICENSE.html` contains the BDK license agreement

> - `GNUmakefile` and `Makefile` are Unix and Windows makefiles (.gmk and .mk suffixes) for building the demos and the BeanBox, and for running the BeanBox

> - `beans/apis` contains
>   - a `java` directory containing JavaBeans source files
>   - a `sun` directory containing property editor source files

> - `beans/beanbox` contains
>   - makefiles for building the BeanBox
>   - scripts for running the BeanBox
>   - a `classes` directory containing the BeanBox class files
>   - a `lib` directory containing a BeanBox support jar file used by `MakeApplet`'s produced code
>   - `sun` and `sunw` directories containing BeanBox source (`.java`) files
>   - a `tmp` directory containing automatically generated event adapter source and class files, `.ser` files, and applet files automatically generated by `MakeApplet`

> - `beans/demos` contains
>   - makefiles for building the demo Beans
>   - an HTML directory containing an applet wrapper demonstration that must be run in `appletviewer`, HotJava, or JDK1.1-compliant browsers
>   - a `sunw` directory containing
>     - a `wrapper` directory containing a Bean applet wrapper
>     - a `demos` directory containing demo source file

> - `beans/doc` contains
>   - demos documentation
>   - a `javadoc` directory containing JavaBeans and JavaBeans-related class and interface documentation
>   - miscellaneous documentation

> - `beans/jars` contains jar files for demo Beans

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