Spring .NET 1.1

Spring.NET provides comprehensive infrastructural support for developing enterprise .NET applications. It allows you to remove incidental complexity when using the base class libraries makes best practices, such as test driven development, easy practices. Spring.NET is created, supported and sustained by SpringSource.
The design of Spring.NET is based on the Java version of the Spring Framework, which has shown real-world benefits and is used in thousands of enterprise applications world wide. Spring .NET is not a quick port from the Java version, but rather a spiritual port based on following proven architectural and design patterns in that are not tied to a particular platform.
The breath of functionality in Spring .NET spans application tiers which allows you to treat it as a one stop shop but that is not required. Spring .NET is not an all-or-nothing solution. You can use the functionality in its modules independently.
Feature Summary
Inversion of Control Container
Aspect-Oriented Programming Framework
Aspect Library
ASP.NET Framework
ASP.NET AJAX Integration
ADO.NET Framework
Declarative Transaction Management
Declarative Middleware Services
NHibernate Integration
NUnit Integration Testing
The Spring.Core module also includes the following additional features.
Expression Language - provides efficient querying and manipulation of an object graphs at runtime.
Validation Framework - a robust UI agnostic framework for creating complex validation rules for business objects either programmatically or declaratively.
Data binding Framework - a UI agnostic framework for performing data binding.
Dynamic Reflection - provides a high performance reflection API.
Threading - provides additional concurrency abstractions such as Latch, Semaphore and Thread Local Storage.
Resource abstraction - provides a common interface to treat the InputStream from a file and from a URL in