I was wondering if anyone has looked at using the spring.net in their production applications? It looks like a good tool for decoupling applications and components.

Has anyone load tested it ?

Thanks in advance, cheers.

You can learn more at http://www.springframework.net

I haven't used it, though what I heard is that spring gets more and more ground in Java-land. I have to add that the .net version isn't quite the same version as in Java, it lacks a lot, though that can come. In .NET we always lag a bit behind Java, and with AOP that's no different. People barely begin to understand there's something called 'code generation' so I don't expect AOP will get some decent marketshare in a short time, but nevertheless, it's a promissing technique, and with .NET's great IL generation build into the CLR, I don't see why this would be very slow as well...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/09/DesignPatterns/default.aspx

Thanks for the link Jim, that article is actually where I learned about it from. I think the biggest time saver is that I wont have to make the factory classes smart anymore, and they can be truely decoupled. Plus I wont have to write the same old remoting code.... again.

I was actually thinking of leveraging it in a db specific factory, e.g. a factory that would load various db specific assemblies.

The other neat aspect (IMO) is allowing other developers to code agains a published interface without them having to dig into your framework. They can just write the code against the interface, make the cofig entries, and violla, they are done and I dont need to extend my framework.

Yeah, apparently dependency injection is a big thing now!