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The Castle Project (or Castle for short) is an
open source application framework for the .NET platform.
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 became 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. In August 2008 he joined Microsoft as a
Program Manager on the MEF team.
On October 31st, 2008 Hamilton announced [1] on his blog that
Castle Project has been split, and all subprojects will be
maintained and released independently since that date.
The first project to be released after the split was
DynamicProxy, on May 4th, 2009 [2].
Features
- A core MicroKernel lightweight inversion of control
container.
- A flexible and powerfully configurable Windsor inversion of
control container suitable for enterprise requirements.
- A popular DynamicProxy lightweight proxy generator for
interfaces and concrete classes.
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