Works together with the code attribute in the APPLET tag to give a complete specification of where to find the main applet class file: code specifies the name of the file, and codebase specifies the URL of the directory containing the file.

See 'Applet codebase'

Codebase specifies the mobile code URLs that a component needs in order for the component to be executed. It's the mechanism that allows us to use remote class loading. Codebase URLs cannot be file URLs; they must be HTTP URLs. Click here for additional information about how codebase works in Jini. How to provide codebase information in your component is covered in detail in the Dependency Resolution of the Developing Components trail. How to debug your codebase is found in the Component Packaging section of Developing Components.

Codebase is a term used in software development to refer to the whole collection of all source code used to build a particular application or component. As typically used, the codebase includes only human-written source code files, and not e.g. source code files generated by other tools or binary library files. However, it does generally include configuration and property files.

A meaningful group of source. Some projects involve only a single codebase, while others have several.