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Component Oriented Programming framework to easily - use and enforce COP in all your applications.

The Avalon project is so large and broad in scope that it is not easy + to provide a simple list of features in the form of "Avalon provides + Component X which will fulfill role Y in your project Z perfectly".

best-of-practice patterns so you're application will - use a solid, proven design.

Most of Avalon is oriented towards server development (though many parts + can be, and are, used in other software domains). As such, it delivers all + those features server applications require (stability, performance, etc), + and does so very well.

reusable Components already available for Avalon - decrease your time-to-market because you don't have - to reinvent the wheel.

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Avalon Framework

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At the very core of our project is the Avalon Framework subproject. + This framework is very stable and in daily use in many applications, from + straightforward desktop products to large scale enterprise applications.

+ After an initial difficult learning curve, this framework will help you + create a better software architecture. In this way, it's role is as + fundamental as, say Object-Oriented Programming or Design Patterns.

several open source applications built on Avalon to - use as inspiration for your own applications (Cocoon, - JAMES, Jesktop, EAS, XCommander).

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All other avalon subprojects make use of the framework. This has allowed + us to provide truly pluggable components which can be used in any + programming environment without requiring gargantuan supporting applications.

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relatively small footprint for the core framework - makes Avalon usable on almost every platform.

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Avalon Excalibur

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Avalon Excalibur provides you reusable components. Because our framework + has been thought out so well, it becomes very easy to create quality + components quickly. While many of the components in Excalibur are + oriented towards server development (like a generic pooling implementation), + others are very useful in other contexts as well (like utilities to help + with internationalization).

+ Instead of listing the features of every single package here, I suggest you + look at the + + Excalibur project page + for more information.

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programmed for scalability and stability making it - suitable for the Enterprise.

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Avalon LogKit

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Avalon LogKit is a feature-rich logging package. It can be used as an + Alternative to other logging packages like Jakarta's + Log4J or the (massively + inferior) + Logging API + included in JDK 1.4.

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common tasks like thread, socket, class and configuration - management are handled for you.

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Avalon Phoenix

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Phoenix is a micro-kernel. It takes care of low level application details + so you can focus on your unique requirments. While this may sound to you + like a servlet or EJB container, phoenix has a very different scope. Where + you can use EJBs to connect to a database, phoenix is the basis on which to + run that database.

+ With that said, you may now start to see the phoenix edge: it provides all + of the features that make you love Servlet Engines so much (and several + more), without restricting you to the specific servlet use case. You can + use Avalon Phoenix to run your servlet engine, database, and other server + components, as well as your java-enabled desktop.

the closest thing to Rapid Enterprise Application - Development yet.

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Take a look at the + + Phoenix project page + to learn how it manages to do all of this.

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pluggable functionality allows for high customization.

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Avalon Applications

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Avalon Applications is a repository for Phoenix-enabled Applications. + It contains a JDBC-compliant database, a Macromedia Flash-compatible XML socket + server, and more. You'll also find a list of applications elsewhere on the + web that run on phoenix. Go to the + + Applications project page + to find out all about them.

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