If you look at it, *path operation functions* are declared to be used whenever a *path* and *operation* matches, and then **FastAPI** takes care of calling the function with the correct parameters, extracting the data from the request.

Actually, all (or most) of the web frameworks work in this same way.

You never call those functions directly. They are called by your framework (in this case, **FastAPI**).

## Mounting a **FastAPI** application

"Mounting" means adding a completely "independent" application in a specific path, that then takes care of handling everything under that path, with the _path operations_ declared in that sub-application.

### Top-level application

First, create the main, top-level, **FastAPI** application, and its *path operations*:

        if (value instanceof Entity) {
            data.register(key, BeanUtil.copyBeanToNewMap(value));
        } else {
            if (value instanceof final Collection<?> coll && !coll.isEmpty()) {
                // care performance for List that the most frequent pattern
                final Object first = coll instanceof List<?> ? ((List<?>) coll).get(0) : coll.iterator().next();
                if (first instanceof Entity) {

///

### What is "Mounting"

"Mounting" means adding a complete "independent" application in a specific path, that then takes care of handling all the sub-paths.

This is different from using an `APIRouter` as a mounted application is completely independent. The OpenAPI and docs from your main application won't include anything from the mounted application, etc.

## Recap

You can use multiple worker processes with the `--workers` CLI option with the `fastapi` or `uvicorn` commands to take advantage of **multi-core CPUs**, to run **multiple processes in parallel**.

You could use these tools and ideas if you are setting up **your own deployment system** while taking care of the other deployment concepts yourself.

{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial011_an_py39.py hl[9] *}

In this case, **FastAPI** won't ever touch or care about `__init__`, we will use it directly in our code.

## Create an instance

We could create an instance of this class with:

{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial011_an_py39.py hl[18] *}

/// tip

If you are in a hurry or don't care, continue with the next sections for step by step instructions to set everything up with different techniques.

///

To **learn the basics of HTTPS**, from a consumer perspective, check <a href="https://howhttps.works/" class="external-link" target="_blank">https://howhttps.works/</a>.

           *
           * ...when we build with JDK 22 and run under JDK 8.
           */
          || info.getName().contains("MultimapsTest")
      /*
       * Luckily, we don't care about analyzing tests at all. We'd skip them all if we could do so
       * trivially, but it's enough to skip these ones.
       */
      ) {
        continue;
      }
      Class<?> clazz = info.load();
      try {

# Sub-dependencies

You can create dependencies that have **sub-dependencies**.

They can be as **deep** as you need them to be.

**FastAPI** will take care of solving them.

## First dependency "dependable"

You could create a first dependency ("dependable") like:

//// tab | Python 3.10+

```Python hl_lines="8-9"
{!> ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial005_an_py310.py!}
```

////

//// tab | Python 3.9+

			}...) {
				return 0, err
			}
		}

		eof := err == io.EOF || err == io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
		if n == 0 && total != 0 {
			// Reached EOF, nothing more to be done.
			break
		}

		// We take care of the situation where if n == 0 and total == 0 by creating empty data and parity files.
		blocks, err = e.EncodeData(ctx, buf[:n])
		if err != nil {
			return 0, err
		}