Carbon services framework

The Carbon Framework is a set of core functionality and a model for building lightweight technical services in Java. It is designed for enterprise solutions where robust components with flexible management and consistent configuration are required. The foundation of Carbon is an XML-based configuration service that supports a namespace of strongly-typed and editable configuration data. Technical components like cache services or schedulers can be deployed and managed through Carbon's configuration service and are easily replaced. The management capabilities are provided though JMX, facilitating the maintenance and monitoring of services.