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<chapter id="introduction">
  <title>Introduction to the JBoss Microcontainer</title>

  <para>The JBoss Microcontainer provides an environment to configure and
  manage POJOs (plain old java objects). It is designed to reproduce the
  existing JBoss JMX Microkernel but targetted at POJO environments. As such
  it can be used standalone outside the JBoss Application Server.</para>

  <para></para>

  <para>This initial release provides a set of features to support POJO
  deployment in JBoss-4.0.3+ and the bootstrap of services used by the
  standalone EJB3 distribution.</para>

  <para></para>

  <para>This document takes you through the design of the microcontainer
  including design decisions and future directions.</para>
</chapter>