Avalon Meta

Type Descriptor API

org.apache.avalon.meta.info

Type is an assembly of descriptors of the constraints a component type declares towards a container and includes declaration of service dependencies, Logger establishment criteria, Configuration, Parameters and Context establishment criteria, in addition to human-readable information about the component type.

Meta Model Services

org.apache.avalon.meta	Generic build resources related to meta content generation.
org.apache.avalon.meta.info.ant	Avalon Meta Generation for Ant The meta info generator task scans sources files for the presence of an avalon.meta tags and based on the tag set specification, generates either XML or serialized meta-info descriptors.
org.apache.avalon.meta.info.builder	Resources supporting the creation of a Type instance from a serialized form.
org.apache.avalon.meta.info.builder.tags	Utility classes supporting encapsulation of the representation of a the different tags supported in the merlin meta info model.
org.apache.avalon.meta.info.locator	Service contracts supporting access to input and output streams relative to a type.
org.apache.avalon.meta.info.verifier	A set of classes supporting verification of components types using class and component meta information.
org.apache.avalon.meta.info.writer	Supplimentary classes supporting the writing of type and service descriptors in serialized and XML format.