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A useful piece of software to download for JavaBean development is the Bean Development Kit (BDK). If you're using JD 1.2 or later, you'll want to download BDK 1.1. If you're constrained to using JDK1.1.x, you'll need BDK 1.0. In both cases, you download a ZIP file, and there's no true installation -- you just unzip the ZIP file contents into a directory somewhere on your machine.

The BDK contains a number of useful things:

• JavaBean source files
• The BeanBox
• JavaBeans demos
• JavaBeans documentation

Even if your IDE supports JavaBeans, the BDK is likely to be a useful resource.

The BDK Contents

In BDK 1.0, the directory structure looks like:

While in BDK 1.1, the directory structure looks like: