Warning

All facilities listed below should be considered as experimental. In general facilities represent a powerful mechanism through components can interact with the cointainer meta model. APIs are subject to change. Facilities described here are available in CVS. They are not production ready at this time.

Index

Topic	Summary
Avalon Finder	A facility that provides support for dynamic component aquisition. The facility exposes methods that allow non-privaliged components to delegate activation request to the finder. The finder will return a service reference to the client application.
Avalon HTTP	A facility that handles redirection of HTTP requests to components. This facility scans the containment model for for components implement HTTP request handlers and provides support for the redirection of incomming HTTP requests to classic compoennts - providing a integration layer between web-centric protocols and components.
Avalon JMX	A facility that handles Java Management Extensions, JMX. It allows components to declare their JMX MBeans, and the facility will expose these over the JMX HTTP connector. Support for JSR-160 is planned.