User guide

This is the reference documentation. If you’re looking to learn Asphalt from scratch, you should take a look at the Tutorials first.

• Application architecture
• Working with components
  • Container components
• Working with contexts and resources
  • Resources
  • Adding resources to a context
  • Getting resources from a context
  • Handling resource cleanup
• Working with coroutines and threads
  • Examples
  • Using alternate executors
• Working with signals and events
  • Exception handling
  • Waiting for a single event
  • Receiving events iteratively
• Testing Asphalt components
  • Example
• Configuration and deployment
  • Running the Asphalt launcher
  • Writing a configuration file
  • Using data from environment variables and files
  • Configuration overlays
  • Defining multiple services
  • Performance tuning