JBoss MicroKernel Bootstrap

Chicken and Egg

The bootstrap breaks the "chicken and egg" problem that the kernel manages services but the kernel itself is made of services.

Inputs

• The profile saying what is deployed/started.

• The metadata of the POJOs.

• The deployment aspects.

• Default configurations (e.g. default container/aspects).

• Virtual file system configurations.

Output

• A configured system.

Design

• Definitions

• The core kernel

• The bootstrap

• Configuration

• Kernel aspects

• Deployment

• JBoss Server implications