What is a kernel (with regards to dependency injection)?

Question

I see the term kernel used a lot but I am not sure what it means. Can you give an example.

Answer 1

I don't think I can explain it very well, so maybe you can take a look here: http://wiki.github.com/enkari/ninject/modules-and-the-kernel.

Answer 2

The kernel is the container itself. It's called "kernel" in Windsor (actually MicroKernel) and Ninject because it only provides the core injection functionality, relying on wrappers (in the case of MicroKernel, it's WindsorContainer) or modules/extension methods (in the case of Ninject) to provide convenience features (for example, WindsorContainer provides XML configuration parsing)