'\" t
.\"
.\" CDDL HEADER START
.\"
.\" The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the
.\" Common Development and Distribution License (the "License").
.\" You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
.\"
.\" You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE
.\" or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing.
.\" See the License for the specific language governing permissions
.\" and limitations under the License.
.\"
.\" When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each
.\" file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE.
.\" If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the
.\" fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying
.\" information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
.\"
.\" CDDL HEADER END
.\"
.\" Copyright 2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
.\" Use is subject to license terms.
.\"
.\" ident	"@(#)activation.3	1.2	10/03/16 SMI"
.\"
.TH "activation" "3" "" "" ""
.SH NAME
activation - JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) is a standard extension to the Java platform.

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B Add activation.jar  to the CLASSPATH

.SH DESCRIPTION
Java Activation Framework, or JAF, enables developers to determine the type of an arbitrary piece of data, to encapsulate access to the data, to discover the functional operations available on it, and to instantiate the appropriate bean to perform the operation(s). It also enables you to dynamically register types of arbitrary data and actions associated with particular kinds of data. Additionally, it enables a program to dynamically provide or retrieve JavaBeans that implement actions associated with some kind of data.
.PP
For more details about Java Activation Framework(JAF), please see
.br
.B https://glassfish.dev.java.net/javaee5/mail web page.

.SH FILES
By default, activation.jar is installed into /usr/share/lib/java directory.

HTML-based documentation is located in activation's doc directory, e.g. /usr/share/doc/activation.

.SH ENVIRONMENT
JAVA_HOME variable must point to the directory where Java is installed.

.RE
.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
.BR attributes (5)
for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp
.TS
box;
cbp-1 | cbp-1
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
=
Availability	library/java/activation
=
Interface Stability	Uncommitted
.TE
.PP
.SH NOTES
Source for activation is available on http://opensolaris.org.