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What is 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
Transparent AOP integration
Virtual File System
Virtual Deployment Framework
OSGi classloading

Documentation

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

MetaData Repository (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)

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

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

ClassLoader

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

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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