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Features

Features

Loom is an extensible Component Container designed to enable rapid development of component based solutions. In particular it provides;

  • Maven plugin to generate component descriptors from javadoc markup
  • Ant tasks to generate component descriptors from javadoc markup
  • Ant tasks to validate component matches its descriptor prior to deployment
  • Validation of all configuration files via schema prior to deployment
  • Hosting of multiple applications in one JVM
  • Management of applications and components via JMX
  • Remote management interface either via web pages or RMI
  • Hot deployment of applications
  • Definition of components using Avalon Framework interfaces
  • The Application Server can run as command line program or as a unix daemon or windows service

Planned additions

Feature additions scheduled for the next release of Loom include:

  • Support for Pico components
  • Support for DNA components
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