Verdantium towards a Java-enabled compound document model (poster session)
Thornton Green · 2000
Java Beans provides a robust mechanism for combining software components. However, to a large extent Java Beans components are currently not being combined to create documents in an environment such as a word processor or illustration program. This is not due to a weakness in the Beans property model, but rather to limitations in how Java Beans' user interfaces are currently implemented. Verdantium is a prototype Java-based API (for JDK 1.2.2 and above) for document embedding that takes a novel approach to implementing software components. This environment retains the property-based semantics from Java Beans, but implements different approaches for on-screen presentation, visual embedding, document printing, and persistence. Fully functional applications (i.e., word processors, illustration programs, equation editors, etc.) can be implemented as individual software components that can either run independently or be embedded in other applications using the same API.