The Talon project is the core project that forms the kernel of the X Platform. Central to Talon is is the AepEngine which provides atomic is a platform to build, run and manage micro applications (‘micro app’). Talon micro apps are lightweight, stateful apps that reside of a messaging fabric. They are driven by messaging and communicate with other micro apps using eventing on a guaranteed messaging fabric. Talon apps are powered by the AEP engine which provides atomic and exactly-once message/event processing capabilities, and the Talon Server XVM which serves as that manageable container for hosting AEP applicationsTalon micro apps.

A Talon Server or XVM hosts one or more Talon applications and provides additional operational capabilities including statistics collection and reporting (heartbeats), lifecycle management and events, alert reporting and remote command invocation (CnC)