Avalon HOWTO Documentation

Welcome the the Avalon HOWTO section. HOWTO's are sort tutorials and explanations on how to accomplish a particular task or make use of a particular feature of Avalon.

Basic Component HOWTO's

• SimpleComponentExample : how to write a simple Avalon component (i.e.- start here)
  
  

Embedding Avalon Containers

Examples on embedding Avalon into various environments. All of the following use the SimpleComponentExample. All of these HOWTO's are aimed at answering the question, "How do I access Avalon components from non-Avalon components?"

• FortressStandaloneExample
• FortressServletExample
• FortressSwingExample
• MerlinStandaloneExample
• MerlinServletExample
• MerlinSwingExample
  

Miscellaneous

• LogRotation
• Excalibur
• ExcaliburStoreExample
• Exporting Services – Object Brokering Options in Avalon
• Overview of Deployable Resources (SAR & blocks vs EAR/WAR)
• AvalonContainerWriting
• How to Generate and Publish Avalon documentation
• AvalonRepositoryAndWebStart – a comparison between Avalon Repository and Java WebStart. Shows some tips and tricks with Merlin too!