Sometimes, it is desirable for an AWT Container to act as a BeanContext. However, AWT Containers cannot implement the BeanContext interface directly, because of a method name collision between Component and Collection. If some AWT Component needs to act as a BeanContext, it must internally create a BeanContext instance and delegate work to it. Third parties, such as visual builder tools, can discover this BeanContext instance if the Component implements the BeanContextProxy interface.

The BeanContextProxy Interface

public BeanContextChild getBeanContextProxy() - Gets the BeanContextChild (or subinterface) associated with this object.