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