| HK2 | |
| Developer: | Oracle Corporation |
| Latest Release Version: | 2.4.0 |
| Operating System: | Cross-platform |
| Language: | Java 6 or Higher |
| Genre: | Dependency Injection Kernel |
| License: | CDDL version 1.0 and GPL v2 license |
| Website: | https://javaee.github.io/hk2/ |
HK2 (Hundred-Kilobyte Kernel) is a light-weight and dynamic dependency injection framework and is a part of the GlassFish Application Server.
HK2 complies with JSR 330 (Dependency Injection for Java). It has useful utilities for marking classes as services and interfaces as contracts.[1]
Some of the features of HK2 DI Kernel are