Since they usually consist of several classes, definition files are often deployed as jar files. An isCOBOL program must contain appropriate definition files to access their events and properties. A tool, called CPGEN, is provided to automatically create the definition files. A separate definition file will be created for each class to which the java-bean extends, directly or indirectly.

Example:

To use the JCalendar bean (com.toedter.calendar.JCalendar in jcalendar.jar), you must create the definition files with one of the following commands:

or

Since the structure of JCalendar is

the following definition files will be created:

object.def

The resulting definition files will contain event definitions

and the list of the available properties