Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring.NET

[Nadeem B. <na...@ea...>]

I do not any right to comment but I am disappointed by this
announcement.

> This will not distract from the focus on Spring J2EE

highly unlikely unless the two teams are separate.=20



On =B6=E2, 2004-04-16 at 18:39 +0100, Rod Johnson wrote:

> Mark Pollack and I would like to announce the Spring Framework .NET. This
> project is currently in the planning stage, but Mark has already set up t=
he
> SF project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/springnet/) and we are
> discussing strategy on the project mailing list. We're aiming for an init=
ial
> release of the basic IoC container, followed by AOP, followed by some
> enterprise services. Of course many of the "enterprise services" appropri=
ate
> to .NET will be different from those relevant to J2EE. But the benefits o=
f a
> lightweight framework still apply. The implementation language will be C#=
.
>=20
> I've been thinking about a .NET port of Spring for a while, and Mark star=
ted
> some work last year. The immediate catalyst was an article by Sami Jaber =
on
> dotnetguru, discussing Spring and other lightweight containers from the
> viewpoint of .NET developers:
> http://www.dotnetguru.org/us/articles/ioc/ioc.html?POSTNUKESID=3D11265df5=
7d0ba
> . (The article was originally written in French and this isn't a great
> translation, so if you read French, go to the original at
> http://www.dotnetguru.org/articles/dossiers/ioc/ioc.htm.) Sami's article
> points out the value proposition regarding transaction management--as wel=
l
> as the obvious IoC and AOP.
>=20
> We feel that ideas from Spring can provide real value to .NET development=
.
> The
> existence of a .NET version of Spring will also be very helpful to the
> significant number of developers who work on both platforms.
>=20
> So: If you would like to volunteer, please speak up! So far we have 4
> developers. Mark will be the project lead. We aim to apply the values tha=
t
> have proven themselves so useful
> in the J2EE project, especially TDD. It's vital that any project bearing =
the
> Spring Framework name should meet our high quality standards.
>=20
> I shouldn't need to say this, because religious disputes about platforms =
are
> plain silly, but rest assured that:
> - This will not distract from the focus on Spring J2EE
> - No sale of souls is involved
>=20
> Note btw that PicoContainer already has a .NET port, although I'm not sur=
e
> how far it's kept up to date. Of course, Pico covers only a fraction of t=
he
> scope of Spring, so a .NET version of Spring is a much greater challenge.
>=20
> Regards,
> Rod
>=20
>=20
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