The metaphor inherent in the name of the object-oriented sofware development technology JAVA was by no means chosen randomly during a midday caffeine boost. Rather, it was chosen with great care to imbue the programming language with a specifc programmatic agenda. The following takes this metaphor seriously, and explores the early distribution structure and market power of coffee using a most suitable example—the island of Java. An often close analogy between the beans from Java and JavaBeans is drawn from these results history to elucidate the intentions and implications—beyond
botanical characteristics—that this cultural-historical context brings to the fruits of this structure or the harvest of this codifed language.