Comments on: Deciding on Castle or Spring.Net http://benreichelt.net/blog/2007/11/06/deciding-on-castle-or-springnet/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:20:45 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ben http://benreichelt.net/blog/2007/11/06/deciding-on-castle-or-springnet/comment-page-1/#comment-1056 ben Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:20:21 +0000 http://benreichelt.net/blog/2007/11/06/deciding-on-castle-or-springnet/#comment-1056 Thanks for the feedback Alex. I agree with you on the overall design and usability of Windsor, I spent yesterday swapping Windsor out with Spring.Net and it wasn't as easy to figure out as it should have been. Unfortunately you hit the nail right on the head - Spring.Net is very well documented and thats a major selling point when making a case for either framework. Thanks for the feedback Alex. I agree with you on the overall design and usability of Windsor, I spent yesterday swapping Windsor out with Spring.Net and it wasn’t as easy to figure out as it should have been.

Unfortunately you hit the nail right on the head – Spring.Net is very well documented and thats a major selling point when making a case for either framework.

]]> By: Alex Henderson http://benreichelt.net/blog/2007/11/06/deciding-on-castle-or-springnet/comment-page-1/#comment-1055 Alex Henderson Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:39:16 +0000 http://benreichelt.net/blog/2007/11/06/deciding-on-castle-or-springnet/#comment-1055 Personally having worked with both containers, I think the MicroKernel / Windsor architecture in Castle is a lot more flexible / powerful then the spring equivalent... Give both a try obviously, but in my experience the Windsor container is probably one of the most well designed IoC containers written, in any language. I think the Castle project actually has more "in it" then Spring.Net, especially if you include Contrib - it's just poorly documented in many cases, or documented in blog posts... Though I haven't had a play with some of the new features added to spring in the last 6 months. Personally having worked with both containers, I think the MicroKernel / Windsor architecture in Castle is a lot more flexible / powerful then the spring equivalent… Give both a try obviously, but in my experience the Windsor container is probably one of the most well designed IoC containers written, in any language.

I think the Castle project actually has more “in it” then Spring.Net, especially if you include Contrib – it’s just poorly documented in many cases, or documented in blog posts… Though I haven’t had a play with some of the new features added to spring in the last 6 months.

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