Castle Project
What is Castle Project?
Castle is an open source project for .NET that aspires to simplify the development of enterprise and web applications. Offering a set of tools (working together or independently) and integration with other open source projects, Castle helps you get more done with less code and in less time.
Projects
ActiveRecord
Castle ActiveRecord is the enterprise data mapping pattern implemented using NHibernate.
MonoRail
Castle MonoRail is a MVC web framework that lets you rapidly build testable and maintainable applications.
Windsor
Castle Windsor is best of breed Inversion of Control (or as some like to call it - Dependency Injection) container. As part of the project, there are also a handful of facilities, which extend Windsor and/or integrate it with other tools.
DynamicProxy
Castle DynamicProxy is very fast and lightweight runtime proxy generation framework. It is used by other projects under the Castle umbrella, as well as numerous other projects, like NHibernate, Moq, Rhino Mocks and many others.
Tools
Castle Services and Tools help you bootstrap your infrastructure easily.
Transactions
Castle Transaction Services and Windsor Automatic Transaction Management Facility.
Deprecated
Over the years the Castle Project has built and supported many projects as well as supported the community by hosting "contrib" projects, all deprecated repositories now live in the Castle Project Deprecated GitHub organization
Castle is free
All projects of Castle Project are available for free, no strings attached.
It's open
Better yet - Castle Project is Open Source, under the terms of Apache License 2.0, which means you are free to use it in any closed source, commercial product.
Fork away
Castle's source code is available. You can look at it, or better yet - fork it, improve, extend, do whatever you like with it. If you want to contribute your changes back to the project read Castle coding standards and how to submit a fix to any Castle Project.
It's community driven
Castle has a vibrant community of users that contribute back to the project by:
