Excalibur Fortress - Overview

Introduction

Fortress contains a framework to help you create your own avalon containers. It boasts asynchronous management of your component instances, high scalability, easier maintenance of your code, and easy embedding into various environments like servlet engines.

Downloads

When fortress is released, binaries will be made available. For now, you can try downloading a nightly build from here.

Other than that, the only way to get fortress is by using cvs.

Available Documentation

  • The primary source of documentation is the fortress website, available at http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/fortress/.
  • There is some material relating to fortress in the experimental ApacheWiki, right here. One of the things you can find there is the FAQ.
  • You will probably want to check out the examples that come with fortress; they're located in the examples/ dir in cvs, and nightly builds are also made available.
  • For general information about the avalon project, you will want to read the Avalon Framework Documentation. Developing with Avalon is a terribly useful resource as well.
  • We strive to completely javadoc all source code; the apidocs are available online.
  • If, after reading all that, you still have unanswered questions, the avalon-user list and its archive can be incredibly useful.
by The Avalon Documentation Team