= Components
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== Meecrowave Core

Core component is the backbone of Meecrowave. It is based on Tomcat embedded for
Servlet container, CXF for JAX-RS, OpenWebBeans for CDI and Log4j2 for the logging.

link:{context_rootpath}/meecrowave-core/configuration.html[Read about Meecrowave configuration]

link:{context_rootpath}/meecrowave-core/cli.html[Read about Meecrowave command line]

== Meecrowave JPA

Meecrowave JPA provides a thin layer on top of JPA to make it easier to use JPA
without requiring to use a full container like JavaEE or Spring. It is just a
CDI extension.

link:{context_rootpath}/meecrowave-jpa/index.html[Read More]

== Meecrowave Maven

Meecrowave provides a Maven plugin to run meecrowave with your preferred build tool.

link:{context_rootpath}/meecrowave-maven/index.html[Read More]

== Meecrowave Gradle

Meecrowave provides a Gradle plugin to run meecrowave with your preferred build tool.

link:{context_rootpath}/meecrowave-gradle/index.html[Read More]

== Meecrowave and the Testing

Meecrowave provides two main testing integration: a JUnit one and an Arquillian Container.

link:{context_rootpath}/testing/index.html[Read More]

== Meecrowave and Monitoring

Meecrowave provides few integration for the monitoring:

link:{context_rootpath}/meecrowave-jolokia/index.html[Jolokia (JMX)]

== Meecrowave and JTA

This is an experimental integration of geronimo-transaction and meecrowave.

link:{context_rootpath}/meecrowave-jta/index.html[JTA module]

== Meecrowave and OAuth2

This is an experimental module integrating CXF OAuth2 server in Meecrowave
through an embeddable dependency or a directly executable jar.

link:{context_rootpath}/meecrowave-oauth2/index.html[OAuth2 module]

== Meecrowave Let's Encrypt

This is an experimental module integrating with Let's Encrypt to provide you
free and easy SSL support on your HTTPS connectors.

link:{context_rootpath}/meecrowave-letsencrypt/index.html[Let's Encrypt module]

== Going further

Meecrowave scope is not the full scope of microservices (whatever it means) or at least enterprise needs
cause several Apache projects cover part of them in a very good way.

See link:companion-projects.html[Companion Projects] for more information.