# Getting Started with the JBoss Microcontainer

## Target Audience

This guide is aimed at developers who want to use the Microcontainer to assemble their own applications or use it to develop shared services in the JBoss Application Server.

## Preface

Commercial development support, production support and training for the JBoss Microcontainer is available through JBoss Inc. The JBoss Microcontainer is a project of the JEMS product suite.

Authors:

- Adrian Brock - JBoss Microcontainer Project Lead and Chief Scientist of JBoss Inc.

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