The Avalon project is Apache's Java Server Framework. It is separated into five sub projects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, and Phoenix. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for Java based projects. It formalizes serveral best of breed practices and patterns for server side programming.
For more information about Avalon, please go to http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon.
Avalon Excalibur provides several components and a couple containers that assist in developing component based software.
Avalon Excalibur is already used in Cocoon, an XML publishing framework. If you are evaluating Avalon and want the proof that it's claims are valid check them out.
For more information about Avalon Excalibur, please go to http://avalon.apache.org/excalibur.
Avalon Excalibur is in the process of making sure that all of the
uilities and code directly relate to Avalon. That means that
generic code is being moved out of Avalon's control. Excalibur
will be hit hardest by this restructuring. To make things easier
on our users, we are providing a compatibility JAR that has all the
projects that we will no longer be supporting. The classes or
packages that are deprecated signify the projects that already have a
replacement. If you would like to volunteer to maintain the
remaining code in the compatibility JAR, please contact the Avalon Developer's list.
The only exception to this rule is Excalibur Testlet, which has
been made part of Excalibur Component.
Name Last modified Size Description
Parent Directory - HEADER.html 18-Mar-2003 10:25 2.9K README.html 18-Mar-2003 10:25 1.8K excalibur-compatibility-1.1.zip 06-Jun-2003 11:01 404K excalibur-compatibility-1.1.zip.asc 06-Jun-2003 11:01 186 excalibur-component-1.1.zip 18-Mar-2003 10:25 640K excalibur-component-1.1.zip.asc 18-Mar-2003 10:46 186 excalibur-configuration-1.0.zip 14-Apr-2003 14:46 142K excalibur-configuration-1.0.zip.asc 14-Apr-2003 14:46 186 excalibur-datasource-1.1.1.zip 06-Jun-2003 11:05 412K excalibur-datasource-1.1.1.zip.asc 06-Jun-2003 11:05 186 excalibur-event-1.0.3.zip 06-Jun-2003 11:07 633K excalibur-event-1.0.3.zip.asc 06-Jun-2003 11:07 186 excalibur-fortress-1.0.zip 06-Jun-2003 11:11 911K excalibur-fortress-1.0.zip.asc 06-Jun-2003 11:11 186 excalibur-i18n-1.0.zip 30-Jan-2003 15:25 41K excalibur-i18n-1.0.zip.asc 25-Sep-2003 07:40 189 excalibur-instrument-1.0.zip 18-Mar-2003 10:31 58K excalibur-instrument-1.0.zip.asc 18-Mar-2003 10:47 186 excalibur-instrument-manager-1.0.zip 18-Mar-2003 10:31 118K excalibur-instrument-manager-1.0.zip.asc 18-Mar-2003 10:48 186 excalibur-lifecycle-1.0.zip 06-Jun-2003 11:13 95K excalibur-lifecycle-1.0.zip.asc 06-Jun-2003 11:13 186 excalibur-logger-1.0.1.zip 18-Mar-2003 10:25 206K excalibur-logger-1.0.1.zip.asc 18-Mar-2003 10:51 186 excalibur-monitor-1.0.2.zip 06-Jun-2003 11:15 134K excalibur-monitor-1.0.2.zip.asc 06-Jun-2003 11:15 186 excalibur-naming-1.0.zip 30-Jan-2003 15:25 126K excalibur-naming-1.0.zip.asc 25-Sep-2003 07:40 189 excalibur-pool-1.2.zip 18-Mar-2003 10:25 140K excalibur-pool-1.2.zip.asc 18-Mar-2003 10:52 186 excalibur-sourceresolve-1.0.1.zip 06-Jun-2003 11:16 217K excalibur-sourceresolve-1.0.1.zip.asc 06-Jun-2003 11:16 186 excalibur-thread-1.1.1.zip 14-Apr-2003 14:47 122K excalibur-thread-1.1.1.zip.asc 14-Apr-2003 14:47 186
Many of the distribution kits have been digitally signed (using PGP). If so, there will be an accompanying distribution.asc file in the same directory as the distribution. The PGP keys can be found in the distribution directory at <http://www.apache.org/dist/avalon/release/KEYS>.
Always test available signatures, e.g.,
> pgpk -a KEYS
> pgpv Avalon-4.1.4-bin.tar.gz.asc
or,
> pgp -ka KEYS
> pgp Avalon-4.1.4-bin.tar.gz.asc
or,
> gpg --import KEYS
> gpg --verify Avalon-4.1.4-bin.tar.gz.asc
For more information about Avalon Excalibur, please go to http://avalon.apache.org/excalibur.