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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Jarslink 2.0 is an Ark Plugin built on SOFAArk that manages multi-application (multi-Biz) merged deployment on a single JVM, supporting dynamic install/uninstall, hot replacement, and cross-application JVM service communication. The project is in maintenance mode with its features merged into the Koupleless modular development framework, so new users should use Koupleless instead.

Use cases

• deploy multiple Java applications in a single JVM to save resources
• hot-swap application modules at runtime without downtime
• isolate conflicting third-party dependencies between modules using classloader isolation
• replace cross-application RPC calls with in-JVM service calls to reduce latency
• dynamically upgrade shared components without requiring all dependent apps to upgrade
• run multiple Spring Boot / SOFABoot apps as Ark Biz modules in one container

When to choose

• you are on the SOFAStack/SOFABoot stack and need merged deployment or class isolation
• you want to run several small apps in one JVM to cut resource overhead
• you need runtime dynamic install/uninstall or hot replacement of application modules

When to avoid

• you are starting a new project - use Koupleless, which absorbed Jarslink's features
• you need a general-purpose application server or container orchestration rather than JVM-level modularity
• your applications are large and independently scalable, where separate deployment is simpler

Facets

plugin · maturity maintenance

plugin-system middleware deployment concurrency backend developer-tools microservices jvm cross-platform sofaark ark-plugin multi-application-deployment class-isolation hot-deployment merged-deployment sofastack spring-boot java

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