Castle Project

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Categories: AOP, Frameworks, Inversion of Control, Miscellaneous, Object-relational mapping

Latest version: 1.0 RC 3
Added 2006-01-08Updated 2007-10-11

Framework that aspires to simplify the development of enterprise and web applications. Castle offers a set of tools (working together or independently) and integration with other open source projects.

Features include:
- Rapid web application development: MonoRail, an MVC web framework inspired by Ruby on Rails' Action Pack.
- Object-relational database mapping: ActiveRecord, a data mapping pattern implemented using NHibernate; ActiveRecord Generator, a desktop application to generate ActiveRecord classes based on database schemas.
- Inversion of control containers: MicroKernel/Windsor Container.
- Proxy generator for interfaces and classes: DynamicProxy.
- AOP framework based on dynamic proxies and XML configuration files: Aspect#.
- Visual Studio 2003/2005 integration.

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