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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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