That was an interesting talk, Owen Rogers talked about how to setup an Operation Database in order to get more visibility on your production system. This is the first time that I sat in a talk that is a "Release It!" influenced talk, and it was very interesting.

The type of Operation Database is focused on adding more information for the developers, rather than exposing more information to the operation team. What was especially interesting is that the amount of data being capture is very small. The standard log data (time, message, exception, etc) and a command log, which I think about as a message handling log. This log capture some statistics about messages / commands that the application has handled. Message size (in & out), time, processing time, etc.

From that, you can get pretty interesting data about your application (just showing avg. message processing time over a period of time is extremely valuable).

The nice part about this is that the entry cost is basically zero.

This is the entire Binsor config file for a real application:

import Castle.MonoRail.Framework
import Castle.MonoRail.WindsorExtension
import Rhino.Commons.Facilities from Rhino.Commons.ActiveRecord

facility MonoRailFacility
facility RhinoTransactionFacility
facility ActiveRecordUnitOfWorkFacility:
	assembly = "HibernatingRhinos"

for type in AllTypesBased of IController("HibernatingRhinos"):
	component type.Name, type
	
for type in AllTypes("HibernatingRhinos").WhereNamespaceEq("HibernatingRhinos.Services"):
	component type.GetServiceInterface(), type

And I am pretty confident that I am not going to have to do much in the future with those.

And yes, you can do it with the fluent registration API as well.

Here is the syntax that I am getting at...

for type in AllTypesBased of IView("Rhino.Commons.Test"):
	component type
	
for type in AllTypesWithAttribute of ControllerAttribute("Rhino.Commons.Test"):
	component type
	
for type in AllTypes("Rhino.Commons.Test") \
	.WhereNamespaceEq("Rhino.Commons.Test.Binsor"):
	component type

for type in AllTypes("Rhino.Commons.NHibernate") \
	.Where({ t as System.Type | t.Name.Contains("NHRepository") }):
	component "nh.repos", type.GetSeriveInterface(), type

And this seems to cover just about any scenario that I can think of. Combine that with Binsor's extend facility, and we are more or less done.

I think I'll let it stand on its own:

facility Castle.MonoRail.WindsorExtension.MonoRailFacility 
for type in AllTypesBased of Controller("HibernatingRhinos"):
	component type.Name, type

Done.

I didn't believe it, to be fair.