Question

In Spring Framework (both for java and .net) i can use the following definition of objects:

<object id="parentObject" type="Type1" abstract="true">
  <property name="name" value="parent"/>
  <property name="age" value="1"/>
</object>

<object id="childObject" type="Type2" parent="parentObject">
  <property name="name" value="override"/>
  <!-- age will inherit value of 1 from parent -->
</object>

Note for parent attribute. It is a kind of templating (inheriting of configuration definitions)

Definition of this attribute:
http://www.springframework.net/docs/1.3.0/reference/html/objects.html#objects-childobjects

What is an equivalent for this in Castle Windsor?

Answer 1

Windsor has ability to define your components in code which is waaaaay more powerful and it’s a recommended way. You can do the “parent” trick by extracting the common code to a helper method.

Config in Windsor is considered legacy, and should not be used except for very limited cases, so in reality you shouldn’t need that at all.