JavaBeans^TM Component API

The JavaBeans component API extends the Java platform's Write Once, Run Anywhere^TM capability to reusable component development. In fact, the JavaBeans architecture takes interoperability a major step forward — your code runs on every OS and also within any application environment. A developer who creates components based on the JavaBeans architecture (beans) secures a future in the emerging network software market without losing customers that use proprietary platforms, because beans interoperate with ActiveX, OpenDoc, and LiveConnect. Long-term persistence for JavaBeans enables you to read and write a bean as a textual representation of its property values.

API Specification

• API Reference
• BeanContext Specification ( PDF | PS)
  Extensible Runtime Containment and Services Protocol for JavaBeans
• JavaBeans Specification (PDF and PS)

Tutorials and Programmer's Guides

• JavaBeans Tutorial
• ActiveX Bridge Developer Guide

API Enhancements

• API Enhancements in Java SE 6.0
• API Enhancements in J2SE 5.0
• API Enhancements in v1.4

More Information

• The JavaBeans Home Page