Systemcodebase

The systemcodebase is the location in the filesytem where the microkernel looks for component archives. By default it is in the same directory as the microkernel itself but the microkernel can be instructed to base the systemcode in a different directory via the kernel configuration. WSMX scans the systemcodebase at startup and continues monitoring it to pick up components that are to be hot-deployed. Since everything that doesn't have a .wsmx extension is ignored, the WSMX executable jar, configuration, key and policy files are sometimes also found in the systemcodebase. Components located in the systemcodebase don't need to be included in the kernel configuration since they will individually and automatically be scanned for a component configuration.