ProcessContainer

Extends: Container

Description

The ProcessContainer class allows you to create an inversion of control (IoC) container that runs as a system process.

Important points

• It processes command line arguments and handles unhandled exceptions and Ctrl-C signal to shutdown the container properly.

Command line arguments

• –config / -c path to a JSON or YAML file with the container’s configuration (default: “./config/config.yml”)
• –param / –params / -p configuration parameters
• –help / -h prints the container usage help

Constructors

Creates a new instance of the container.

public constructor(name?: string, description?: string)

• name: string - (optional) container’s name (accessible via ContextInfo)
• description: string - (optional) container’s description (accessible via ContextInfo)

Fields

Instance methods

run

Runs the container by instantiating and running components inside the container.

It reads the container configuration, and creates, configures, references and opens components. On process exit; it closes, unreferences and destroys components in order to shutdown properly.

public void run(String[] args) throws Exception

• args: String[] - command line arguments

Examples

{
  ProcessContainer container = new ProcessContainer();
  container.addFactory(new MyComponentFactory());
 
  container.run(process.getArgs());
  }

See also

• Container