A coalition of industry leaders in component development worked with JavaSoft to create the JavaBeans specification, which was released to the Internet for public comments on September 4, 1996. The "frozen" JavaBeans specification combines the work of Apple, Borland, IBM, JustSystem, Microsoft, Netscape, Rogue Wave, SunSoft and Symantec and many, many others... We're very pleased to see the tools community swiftly embracing JavaBeans by announcing support for JavaBeans in their visual application builder tools.