| Castle Project | |
|---|---|
| Image:Castle-logo.png | |
| Developer | Castle Stronghold |
| Latest release | 1.0 Release Candidate 2 / Nov 1st, 2006 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Application framework |
| License | Apache 2.0 |
| Website | castleproject.org |
The Castle Project (or Castle for short) is an open source application framework for the .Net platform.
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Castle Project history
The project was founded by Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira (Hammett), who was a member of the Apache Avalon and the Apache Excalibur projects. Keenly interested in the development of an Inversion of Control container, after he resigned from Avalon and become disillusioned with Excalibur, he went on to develop and release his own for the .NET platform. Hammett was joined by other developers, after the publishing of a series of articles [1] [2] on The Code Project and the Castle Project eventually expanded its mission to provide a simple set of tools to speed up the development of common enterprise and web applications while promoting good architecture. [3] The castle project still continues to gain acceptance and mind-share from the .Net community, including recognition from Microsoft thought leaders as a framework to assist with building robust, extensible, working software. [4] In 2006 Hammett started his own company to offer commercial support for the Castle Project and for the applications developed using the framework.
Key features
- A core MicroKernel lightweight inversion of control container.
- A flexible and powerfully configurable Windsor inversion of control container suitable for enterprise requirements.
- A Monorail MVC web application framework, inspired by Ruby on Rails
- An Castle ActiveRecord implementation of the ActiveRecord pattern built on top of NHibernate.
- A simple Aspect# aspect-oriented programming framework compliant with AOP Alliance recommandations.
- A popular DynamicProxy lightweight proxy generator for interfaces and concrete classes.
- An improved NVelocity fork from the official port of the Velocity template engine.
References
- ^ Introducing Castle - Part I. Retrieved on 27 December 2004.
- ^ Introducing Castle - Part II. Retrieved on 26 January 2005.
- ^ Krill, Paul (2006-11-21). Castle built for .Net.
- ^ Eini, Oren (2006-11-10). Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection: Working with Windsor Container.
