DataObjects.Net extensions

Recently we have discussed DataObjects.Net extensions concept and there are some conclusions:

DataObjects.Net extensions are fully reusable DataObjects.Net modules designed to assist developers with common development concerns, such as validation or security. They can also include their own persistent model that becomes a part of the whole business model - for example, security extension can contain such entities as User and Permission.

We plan to provide a simple, but powerful API for this feature: extensions are based on session-level events and are descendants of SessionBound implementing a single interface:

interface IExtension
{
  void Initialize(Session session);
}

Normally extensions will subscribe on Session events during the initialization and register some periodically executing actions. This pattern is very similar to HttpModules in ASP.NET. So Session class will be provided with a set of events, allowing to customize life cycle of session and persistent objects.

What will be based on extensions? Already existing validation feature: it will be refactored to such an extension after getting this subpart implemented. Other candidates are security and full-text search extensions.

The issues related to extension system: 258, 256.

Update: we've decided to implement this a bit differently. Please read description of issue 258 for details.