Avalon Composition
The composition model is the essential fabric that ties together the Merlin model-drive architecture.
Aspects
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Model Integration | Avalon Composition ties together component and underlying component type model, component and container deployment directives, and the runtime environment. |
| Model Driven | The composition model API provides support for dynamic management of the containment model - enabling full model-driven control. |
| Context Management | The composition package provides comprehensive support for the defintion of domain specific context handling - eliminating dependency on classic Avalon deployment solutions. Context entry handling supports custom object creation patterns and multiple context entry creation semantics. |
| Configuration Management | The multi-tired configuration model covering static type based defaults, packaged configuration profiles, explicit deployment configurations, and overridding configurations. |
| Dependency Management | Support for automatic assembly, assembly directive overrides, and plugabble candidate selection semantics. |
| Classloader Management | Leveraging the Avalon Repository resource management facilities, the composition package provides support for logical artifacts that are independent of a particular physical url, including system and application cache management |
