An Xbean is a JavaBean software component that takes XML as input, processes it in some fashion and then passes XML on to the next Xbean.
The goal of the Xbeans project is to provide a rich repository of freely available Xbeans.
This is a collection of Java based XML technologies allowing for the rapid production of XML Messaging based systems using Java. As an Example there is a (Swing/JDOM) GUI framework, a Message Driven Bean which allow for rapid production / consumption of