What Is JAB (Java Access Bridge)

This section describes what is JAB (Java Access Bridge) - a technology that exposes the Java Accessibility API to Microsoft Windows environment. JDK comes with 3 JAB tools: jabswitch, jaccesswalker, and jaccessinspector.

What Is JAB (Java Access Bridge)? - JAB is a technology that exposes the Java Accessibility API in a Microsoft Windows DLL, enabling Java applications and applets that implement the Java Accessibility API to be visible to assistive technologies on Microsoft Windows systems. Java Accessibility API is part of Java Accessibility Utilities, which is a set of utility classes that help assistive technologies provide access to GUI toolkits that implement the Java Accessibility API.

JAB is included in the JDK for Windows package. It comes with 3 tools.

"jabswitch": A Windows command to enable or disable the Java Access Bridge.

"jaccessinspector": A Windows GUI tool to examine accessible information of objects that trigger events in a Java GUI application.

"jaccesswalker": A Windows GUI tool to navigate through the component trees of a Java GUI application.

For more information, see JAB Web page at https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/javase-tech-access-bridge.html.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Java Tools Terminology

 Java Tools Included in JDK

 javac - The Java Program Compiler

 java - The Java Program Launcher

 jar - The JAR File Tool

 jlink - The JRE Linker

 jmod - The JMOD File Tool

 jimage - The JIMAGE File Tool

 jpackage - Binary Package Builder

 javadoc - The Java Document Generator

 jdeps - The Java Class Dependency Analyzer

 jdeprscan - The Java Deprecated API Scanner

 jdb - The Java Debugger

 jcmd - The JVM Diagnostic Tool

 jconsole - Java Monitoring and Management Console

 jstat - JVM Statistics Monitoring Tool

 JVM Troubleshooting Tools

 jhsdb - The Java HotSpot Debugger

 jvisualvm (Java VisualVM) - JVM Visual Tool

 jmc - Java Mission Control

 javap - The Java Class File Disassembler

 keytool - Public Key Certificate Tool

 jarsigner - JAR File Signer

 jshell - Java Language Shell

 jrunscript - Script Code Shell

 Miscellaneous Tools

 native2ascii - Native-to-ASCII Encoding Converter

JAB (Java Access Bridge) for Windows

What Is JAB (Java Access Bridge)

 Java GUI Test Program

 "jaccesswalker" - GUI Component Tree Browser

 "jaccessinspector" - Accessible Information Examiner

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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