Avalon History Lesson (WAS: Re: A Merlin Top Level Project)

Niclas Hedhman wrote:

> On Thursday 22 July 2004 13:14, David Leangen wrote:
> 
> 
>>Until now, I had thought that Avalon and Merlin necessarily worked
>>together. Can one actually use Avalon without a component container like
>>Merlin?
> 
> 
> Well, that depends on what you mean by "use". There are stuff in Avalon 
> Framework that can be used completely without any container.
> But more importantly, there are other containers than Merlin.
> Basically, Avalon started out with Excalibur Component Manager (ECM) ...

<snip> Avalon History Lesson </snip>

For the sake of posterity I wrote down a lot of this in an article that 
was on the wiki and is now on the new site at:

  http://avalon.apache.org/central/community/history/story.html

For those who are interested in how Avalon got to where it is now I 
believe it's a pretty good read.  If someone wants to clarify points, 
let me know.

jaaron