Date: Aug. 17, 2000
Link: http://www.xbeans.org/downloadtxt.html
Source Author or Organization: Bruce Martin, Xbeans.org, JGuru.com

An Xbean is a software component that takes XML as input, processes it in some fashion and then passes XML on to the next Xbean. Xbeans are Java Beans. Xbeans.org has posted the first group of Xbeans for distribution, which includes an HTTP sender-receiver, RMI sender-receiver, CORBA sender-receiver, Xpk4j adapter, timer, and memory meter. Both a binary .jar file and the complete source code are in the distribution. Also posted is a link to sample Xbean code.