gitblit / fathom

Modular & injectable foundation for building JVM microservices

Fathom

Fathom is an opinionated, modular, & injectable foundation for building microservices on a JVM.

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Microservice Foundation

Fathom provides a tightly integrated base to quickly bootstrap your microservice project using best-of-breed components.

Full documentation available here.

Opinionated

• Undertow is the development & deployment engine
• Guice is the dependency injection mechanism
• Guava is the standard library
• Config is the configuration file parser
• Args4j is the command-line parsing framework
• Logback is the logging framework
• SLF4J is the logging interface
• Java 8 is the baseline JVM

Modular

Fathom features a formal Module specification, Service infrastructure, and dependency injection all combined with Java ServiceLoader to give you ultimate modularity.

License

Distributed under the Apache Software License 2.0.

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