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<chapter>
  <title>Introduction</title>

  <section>
    <title>Package Structure</title>

    <para>Snowdrop contains the following files:</para>

    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><filename>snowdrop-vfs.jar</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            A library that contains the support classes
            for resource scanning (scanning the classpath for
            bean definitions, or using "classpath*:"-style
            patterns).
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><filename>snowdrop-weaving.jar</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            A library that contains the support
            classes for load-time weaving.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><filename>snowdrop-deployers.jar</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Contains utility classes used internally by the Spring deployer. It is not
            intended for direct use by developers.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
        <term><filename>jboss-spring-deployer-3.4.jar</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
              This is a packaged distribution of the Spring deployer, 
              which bootstraps and registers
              the application contexts to be used by your
              Java EE applications.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
  </section>
</chapter>
