Avalon Excalibur was created in order to ease development in
new projects. To that end, Excalibur contains a number of
ready to use components and utilities that handle everything
from command line parsing to thread concurrency management.
The components in the Excalibur package have been well tested
and do work reliably. There is an associated project called
"Scratchpad" that is a staging area for new Components. When
they have been sufficiently tested, we will include them in
Excalibur.