BDK1.1

The Bean Development Kit (BDK) from Sun includes a simple example of a building environment which uses beans, called the beanbox, and some sample beans. This note will tell you how to set up and use the BDK on the Computer Science & Informatics Ubuntu Linux workstations and how to add your own beans to the BeanBox environment. The BDK The BDK needs to create some directories and copy some files to your filespace before you can use it. So, the first time you want to use the BDK, give the following command: % bdk-user-setup This will create a directory called BDK1.1 and sub-directories BDK1.1/jars and BDK1.1/beanbox together with some links to files in the Bean Development Kit installation directory.