1. Introduction to the Development Environment for Enterprise Server Add-On Components
Services in the HK2 Component Model
Instantiation of Components in HK2
Instantiation Cascading in HK2
Identifying a Class as an Add-On Component
Using the Apache Maven Build System to Develop HK2 Components
3. Extending the Administration Console
4. Extending the asadmin Utility
5. Adding Container Capabilities
6. Packaging, Integrating, and Delivering an Add-On Component
The Hundred-Kilobyte Kernel (HK2) provides a module system and component model for building complex software systems. HK2 forms the core of Enterprise Server's architecture.
The module system is responsible for instantiating classes that constitute the application functionality. The HK2 runtime complements the module system by creating objects. It configures such objects by:
Injecting other objects that are needed by a newly instantiated object
Injecting configuration information needed for that object
Making newly created objects available, so that they can then be injected to other objects that need it