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A BeanBox is a visual interface that displays (and allows changes to be made to) the properties of a JavaBean and further allows one to see and change the linkage between JavaBeans.
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A JavaBean consists of Java Code and possible associated files such as one or more icons, an image or two, a help file etc. This collection of entities is stored in a jar file which is based on the well-known UNIX tar file concept
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JavaBeans are naturally used as distributed objects in CORBA and can be linked to both JDBC (and hence databases) and COM from Microsoft.
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There is a Java native distributed communication model RMI (Remote Method Invocation) which provides CORBA like capabilities for a pure Java world
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Basic CORBA capability is invoking a method(aka service) in a remote object
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