Overview of Apache Avalon

	Avalon Central houses our documentation, tutorials, and a number of resources which allow the Avalon community to run smoothly.
	Avalon Products includes: Merlin Runtime forms the core of the Avalon Platform and provides an IoC container for service and component management. Merlin Discovery aims to provide a complete service delivery infrastructure. Avalon Repository is a Java API and bootstrap platform for dynamic artifact loading, classloader chain creation, and generic application bootstrapping using local and remote resource repositories. Avalon Tools comprises a collection of tools for building and developing with the Avalon platform. Avalon Magic is a build system based on Apache Ant. It provides a project model abstraction layer enabling centralized version and dependency management (similar to Maven), build task automation, and dynamic plugin management. Avalon Studio is a set of Eclipse plugins for Avalon component development.
	Avalon Planet houses our component libraries and container extensions: Avalon Components is a collection of basic reusable components which includes the original Cornerstone component library. Avalon Facilities are Merlin container extensions which add special functionality like JMX, HTTP, JMS, and RMI support.

Icons courtesy of the KDE Crystal SVG project.