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
• Transparent AOP integration
• Virtual File System
• Virtual Deployment Framework
• OSGi classloading

Documentation

• JBoss Microcontainer 2.0.0 User Guide (Draft)
• JBoss Microcontainer 2.0.0 Reference Guide (Draft - aimed at JBoss contributors)
• JBoss Microcontainer Wiki

News

• 18-March-2009: New MC integration project was started.
• 29-December-2008: JBoss Microcontainer Advanced DI/IoC article @ DZone was published
• 27-November-2008: JBoss Microcontainer goes 2.0.0.GA
• 1-October-2008: JBoss Microcontainer Component models article @ DZone was published
• 12-September-2008: All JBoss Microcontainer sub-projects are at Candidate Release version!
• 11-September-2008: JBoss Deployers 2.0.0.CR1 has been released.
• 11-September-2008: JBoss Classloading 2.0.0.CR2 has been released.
• 10-September-2008: JBoss Microcontainer 2.0.0.CR1 has been released.
• 8-September-2008: JBoss VFS 2.0.0.CR1 has been released.
• 8-September-2008: JBoss MAN 2.0.0.CR1 has been released.
• 8-September-2008: JBoss MDR 2.0.0.CR1 has been released.
• 8-September-2008: JBoss Reflect 2.0.0.CR1 has been released.
• 11-July-2008: JBoss Microcontainer Ohloh profile has been created.
• 10-July-2008: JBoss Microcontainer logo has been revealed.
• 7-July-2008: New JBoss MDR Cache 2.0.0 has been created.

Architecture

Originally JBoss Microcontainer was a standalone project in the jbossas SVN repo.
Since then the project was split into smaller sub-projects:

Overall - a general MC issues, concerning all sub-projects

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMICROCONT

Reflection

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBREFLECT
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-reflect/
• MVN http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/jboss/jboss-reflect/

MetaData Repository (MDR)

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMDR
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-mdr/
• MVN http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/jboss/jboss-mdr/

MetaData Repository Cache (MDRC)

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMDR (part of MDR)
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-mdr-cache/
• MVN: Please contact the project lead or post requirement on the forum.

Managed (and MetaType)

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMAN
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-man/
• MVN http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/jboss/man/

Kernel (basic kernel + aop, spring and guice integration, jmx support)

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBKERNEL
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/kernel/
• MVN http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/jboss/kernel/

We changed this locations for 2.2.x and above. The old 2.0.x can still be found at:

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMICROCONT
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/microcontainer/
• MVN http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/jboss/microcontainer/

ClassLoader

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCL
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-cl/
• MVN http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/jboss/cl/

Deployers

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBDEPLOY
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-deployers/
• MVN http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/jboss/deployers/

Reliance

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBREL
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/reliance/
• MVN: Please contact the project lead or post requirement on the forum.

OSGi

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBOSGI
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-osgi/
• MVN http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/jboss/osgi/

VFS

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBVFS
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/vfs/
• MVN http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/jboss/jboss-vfs/

MC integration

• JIRA http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMCINT
• SVN http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/mc-int/
• MVN: Please contact the project lead or post requirement on the forum.

Getting involved

Do you want to be a Microcontainer committer?
Take a look at the currently outstanding tasks in JIRA for any of the subprojects

Forums

• The user forum is where you can ask for help.
• The development forum is for the discussion of changes to the implementation.

Building the project

All sub-projects are fully mavenized, using Maven2 pom.xml files. You can easily build them by running 'mvn clean install' Maven2 command. This already runs the tests that are part of each sub-project.

Using Eclipse

Each project also contains Eclipse .project and .classpath files that allow one to develop from within eclipse. The easiest way to setup an Eclipse workspace is to start with an empty workspace, and the use the File/Import/Existing Project into Workspace... and select the jbossmc svn working directory.

Using IntelliJ IDEA

Since all sub-projects are fully mavenized, you can simply run Maven2 IDEA plugin in the root of each sub-project.

        mvn idea:idea 

This builds all the neccessary IDEA files, links together the library dependencies. Make sure you run install phase before running this plugin.

Authors

• Adrian Brock
• Ales Justin
• Scott Stark
• Kabir Khan
• Marko Strukelj

Past contributers

• Bill Burke
• Les Hazelwood

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