May 13 2008
Castle demo App #2: Monorail basics
In the second part of the Castle demo application tutorial, we look into the basic features of Castle’s powerful Model-View-Controller system, called Monorail. Monorail is based on Ruby on Rails, and brings two very important features to .NET web development:
1. Good separation of concerns between the domain model, workflow logic and the user interface: this allows us to unit test larger portions of web applications, makes the code more reusable and gives us flexibility for the user interface.
2. HTTP request/response plumbing, allowing us to be much more productive when developing web pages: Monorail will automatically convert HTTP request data into strongly typed function parameters, even domain objects; it provides an infrastructure for aspect-oriented request handling and reacting to errors. That allows us to focus on the business logic of the web application and skip writing boilerplate web code. Continue Reading »
