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| <document> |
| <properties> |
| <title>Fulcrum</title> |
| <author email="jvanzyl@apache.org">Jason van Zyl</author> |
| <author email="quintonm@bellsouth.net">Quinton McCombs</author> |
| </properties> |
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| <body> |
| |
| <section name="What is Fulcrum?"> |
| <p> |
| Fulcrum was originally created as part of the Turbine 3 effort. The idea |
| was to be able to decouple the services from Turbine 2 allowing them to be |
| used on both projects. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Fulcrum is currently evolving into a component repository based on the Avalon framework. |
| Each service is being converted into a stand alone component that can |
| be released independently of the other components. This will allow the |
| Turbine project to to release components as they change instead of having |
| to release everything at once. This will also allow other projects to take advantage |
| of these components. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="Container compatibility"> |
| <p> |
| All components are compatible in Avalon's ECM container. Any dependencies |
| on other components, system properties, or context elements are clearly |
| documented in the docs for each component. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Additionally, Fulcrum offers the Yaafi component. Yaafi (Yet Another Avalon Framework |
| Implementation) is a very simple container that is meant to be used with singleton |
| components. It is perfect for unit testing your components. You can then run them in |
| any other Avalon container like ECM, Phoenix, Excalibur, etc.. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
| |
| </body> |
| </document> |