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Beans can be manipulated programmatically but their most efficient use is within visual development or runtime environments.
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A typical PC desktop example is a GUI builder in which both the control buttons and the application-specific computation and graphics modules are represented as beans and suitably positioned and connected in the visual interactive mode.
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At the moment, JavaSoft offers a simple BeanBox called BDK but a broad suite of more sophisticated and powerful IDEs is under development by the Web industry.
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Most notable BeanBox called InfoBus, developed by Lotus and used in their Kona product for Beans based electronic presentation tools will become part of future JDK releases.
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Another interesting BeanBox technology called BeanConnect will be offered by Netscape and will provide HTML/JavaScript support for bean manipulation and connectivity.
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