Boiler is a complete IoC microarchitecture. It takes automated DI (from SwiftSuspenders) and tacks on inversion of control for configuration and initialisation.

Boiler begs you to avoid writing a framework that lets people extend framework classes.

Steam is a reference framework emerging from Boiler You probably want to start by looking at Steam or the FlickrGallerySample

Steam Docs

Boiler is about convention

• Add a DI mapping of a class, it's namespace and/or structure will do the rest (Like Rails)
• Add Metadata only when you can't depend on convention
• Change the conventions by injecting different 'detectors'

Boiler is about extensibility

• Does not add methods to the injector (called lifetime) other than the configuration support.
• Sugar is added by injection or detection. You never base an actor on a superclass from the framework.
• Configure the order that 'detectors' are run in.
• Define the kinds of mapping and injections that 'detectors' run on.

Here's a poem:

  Invert Control.

If you're writing a framework, and you don't want it to force people into a hole.
  Invert Control.

When you think it's finished but something nags you about a classes role
  Invert Control

When having to extend framework classes is not your goal...

  I N V E R T  C O N T R O L

Architecture

Absolute guiding principles

• To be easily extensible
• Very little boilerplate (but only lose it by injecting helpers!)
• strict/strong typed
• Does not stop you from leaning on your tools (I use Intellij's refactoring heavily)
• Metadata never defines type (that includes 'names'). If metadata needs to attach to type, it should annotate strong typed, first class language constructs such as var and function.

Still very incomplete

Lots of WIP, so don't be suprised at:

• The lack of tests (Im not a TDDer, that might turn you off to begin with)

• Sanity.. I'm not sane.

  Current todo list

Shoulders of giants.

All of this is possible because of the amazing work of:

• Robotlegs and the team.
• SwiftSuspenders and Till.
• Ruby On Rails and the team.
• Ruby and the team.