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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