Table of Contents

• Introduction to Plexus
• Developing Components
  • Introduction To Components
  • Lifecycle
  • Personalities
    • Plexus Personality
    • Avalon Personality
    • Pico Personality
    • Spring Personality
  • Configuration files
    • Component Descriptor
    • Component auto-configuration
  • Building Components
    • Component Identity
    • Component Testing
• Developing Applications
  • Runtime Builder
  • Component Descriptor Creator (CDC)
• Plexus Application Server
  • Building PARs
  • Deploying PARs
  • Services
• Advanced Topics
  • Plexus Class Loading
  • Programmatic Configuration of Container
• Appendices
  • Appendix I: Javadoc tags reference for CDC
  • Appendix II: Plexus Maven Plugin