$CASE/04s522/bde2java04s/aareadme - RJL050911 I created this directory today to group the bde2java project directories of smandava and jma. This bde2java update was hidden when they were directly under 04s522 earlier. This is the last bde implementation directly in Java. It is based on earlier projects including an elegant one by RPoonsup. His code base ignored chgen architecture and makes compatibility of bde and bde2java harder to achieve because two versions of code have to be enhanced causing double maintenance. The next bde2java should be based on genjava, which is a Jave code generator working from the same .sch file and TT--->TA metadata used by chgen and gencpp. This will make the database back ends very similar and preseerve daqa compatibility during upgrades.