Conclave originally began life around 2004 as a .NET CMS built around topicmaps, and influenced heavily by the WikiWikiWeb. It was a lot of fun but a personal side project, and was a little slow and clunky.

The next incarnation in 2006 was Acumen a .NET MVC web-application framework and CMS built with a team in Spain. Multi-tenant, multi-lingual and driving a couple of dozen public facing and internal extranet applications, Acumen was so much fun to develop and an incredible learning experience.

More recently in 2011 I began working on a behaviour oriented framework the purpose of which was to replace MVC within Conclave, so that feature-set just got rolled into Conclave. This left Conclave very schizophrenic and almost impossible to explain to any uninvolved person. Conclave simply seemed to be too many things.

So. The behavioural composition malarkey has been taken out of Conclave and is now Inversion. Conclave.CMS and Conclave.Funder will then simply be applications that use Inversion rather than being joined at the hip. This it is hoped will help keep our separation of concerns a little more honest.

Over the course of the Winter I’ll write some more about Inversion and it’s design goals.