Chapter 6. Component Models
The JBoss Microcontainer works within several popular POJO component models. Components are reusable software programs that you can develop and assemble easily to create sophisticated applications. Effective integration with these component models was a key goal for the Microcontainer. Some popular component models which can be used with the Microcontainer are JMX, Spring, and Guice.
6.1. Allowable Interactions with Component Models
Before discussing interaction with some of the popular component models, it is important to understand which types of interactions are allowable. JMX MBeans are one example of a component model. Their interactions include executing MBean operations, referencing attributes, setting attributes and declaring explicit dependencies between named MBeans.
The default behaviors and interactions in the Microcontainer are what you also normally get from any other Inversion of Control (IoC) container and are similar to the functionality provided by MBeans, including plain method invocations for operations, setters/getters for attributes and explicit dependencies.
