package-info.java

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/**
 * Defines a {@link org.apache.isis.core.commons.components.Component}
 * architecture, along with factories (called {@link org.apache.isis.core.commons.components.Installer}s)
 * to install (or create) those components.
 * 
 * <p>
 * There are three subinterfaces of 
 * {@link org.apache.isis.core.commons.components.Component}, for three different
 * scopes:
 * <ul>
 * <li><p> {@link org.apache.isis.core.commons.components.ApplicationScopedComponent application-scoped} </p></li>
 * <li><p> {@link org.apache.isis.core.commons.components.SessionScopedComponent session-scoped} </p></li>
 * <li><p> {@link org.apache.isis.core.commons.components.TransactionScopedComponent transaction-scoped} </p></li>
 * </ul>
 * 
 * <p>
 * Many {@link org.apache.isis.core.commons.components.Component}s may also be injectable,
 * meaning that they know hot to inject themselves to a candidate object "if appropriate".
 * The convention adopted in most cases is for an object requiring injection of
 * component <tt>Xxx</tt> to implement an <tt>XxxAware</tt> interface that
 * defines a <tt>setXxx(Xxx)</tt> method.
 */
package org.apache.isis.core.commons.components;