loom - 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

Feature additions scheduled for the next release of Loom include:

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Features