The `java.beans.beancontext.*` package was added in the JDK 1.2 release, well in advance of new language features such as annotations, lambdas, and modules, as well as programming paradigms such as "Declarative Configuration", "Dependency Injection", and "Inversion of Control".

Based on concepts from OpenDoc, developed by Apple Computer in the mid to late 1990's, this package was intended to provide mechanisms for the assembly of JavaBeans(tm) components into hierarchies. This enabled individual components to produce and consume services expressed as interfaces by their peers, ancestors, and descendants.

With the advancements in the language, these APIs are now both obsolete and express an "anti-pattern" of component assembly and interaction. They are therefore deprecated for removal in a future release.

Developers should no longer use these APIs. They should plan to migrate any existing code dependent on this package to an alternate solution in anticipation of their future removal.