Component configuration interfaces and XML-based implementations.
The org.apache.avalon.framework.configuration
package contains primarily:
- The Configurable interface, which a Component implements
if it needs to be configured with externally-specified data before it is initialized.
- The Configuration interface, an implementation of which
will be passed to Components that implement Configurable.
- The Reconfigurable interface, which Components implement if
they need to be reconfigured at runtime.
- Various classes providing the default XML-based implementation of Configuration. The mapping from XML to Configuration tree is
described in DefaultConfigurationBuilder.