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