What is the JBoss Microcontainer?

The JBoss Microcontainer is a refactoring of JBoss's JMX Microkernel to support direct POJO deployment and standalone use outside the JBoss application server.

Features

• All the features of the JMX Microkernel

• Direct POJO deployment (no need for

  Standard/XMBean

  or

  MBeanProxy

  )

• Direct IOC style dependency injection

• Improved lifecycle management

• Additional control over dependencies

Getting involved

Do you want to be a microcontainer committer? Take a look at the [currently outstanding tasks in

JIRA|http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMICROCONT]

Documentation

• Design - original design document

• Project page - links to downloads, docs, etc.

• FAQ

Configuration

TODO

Design

• The core microcontainer dependency classes

Forums

• User forums for help requests, but Read this first

• Design discussions not for help requests, to discuss the development of microcontainer itself.

• Bug Reports, Change Notes and RoadMap to find solved problems, known issues or report new problems

SVN

The Microcontainer source is located in the SVN jbossas repository under the URL

https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/microcontainer/

. The anonymous access URL is

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/microcontainer/

.

The Microcontainer source is split into several different projects

• aop-mc-int - the aop integration

• classloader - new classloader model, prepared to handle OSGi CL style

• container - general metadata utilities, and virtual file system usuable across projects

• dependency - a generic dependency state machine

• deployers - the virtual deployment framework (VDF) spi and abstractions.

• guice-int - guice integration

• kernel - the microcontainer adding xml deployment and "javabeans" to the above two projects

• managed

• metatype

• osgi-int - osgi integration

• reliance-identity - define identity as a MC POJO service

• reliance-rules - define your dependencies with Drools

• reliance-jbpm - define your dependencies with jBPM

• spring-int - spring integration

The project can be built using maven 2.  From the parent directory:

mvn install

This will compile the source, run the tests, and package the jars.

More information can be found on the Maven pages.

Releases

Once you have it checked out, follow the maven build instructions and see the QA release page

Authors

• Adrian Brock project lead.

• Bill Burke

• Kabir Khan

• Scott Stark

• Ales Justin

Retired

• Les Hazlewood

• And many patches gratefully received from the community with thanks.

Related

• JBossMicrokernel - The JMX Microkernel

• JBossBeanDeployer - A JBossAS deployer that uses the JBoss Microcontainer