InfoWorld: Apache Avalon Project Closes Down

"Avalon, an Apache project to build a framework for object-oriented, component-based programming, has been shut down, forking off into several separate open source efforts, an official of the Apache Software Foundation confirmed on Wednesday.

"The Avalon effort was intended to produce an Inversion of Control (IoC) framework for container programming, with the container controlling components that pass lifecycle and dependency functions between each other. Initially focused on Java, the project eventually added C# as a target platform..."

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