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This section describes the low-level fundamental building blocks of the IntelliJ Platform:

* The component model - how the application is hosted and composed. Lifetime and dependency management.
* [Disposers](disposers.md) - managing object lifetimes and resource cleanup
* [Threading models](general_threading_rules.md)
* [Messaging](messaging_infrastructure.md)