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AWT Containers and the BeanContextProxy Interface

Sometimes, it is desirable for an AWT Container to act as a BeanContext. Such an example is the BeanBox, which ships with the BDK. However, AWT Containers cannot implement the BeanContext interface directly, because of a method name collision between Component and Collection. If some AWT Component needs to act as a BeanContext, it must internally create a BeanContext instance and delegate work to it. Third parties, such as visual builder tools, can discover this BeanContext instance if the Component implements the BeanContextProxy interface.

The BeanContextProxy Interface

public BeanContextChild getBeanContextProxy() - Gets the BeanContextChild (or subinterface) associated with this object.

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