Is MEF mature enough to bet the company on?

Question

My company needs to rewrite a large monolithic program, and I would want it written using a plugin type architecture. Currently the best solution appears to be MEF, but as it is a fairly 'new' thing I am warey of betting the future of my company (and my reputation) on it.

Does anyone have a feeling on how mature a solution MEF is ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Visual Studio's entire extension system is now built on MEF.

That is to say that Microsoft is Dog-fooding it (like they are doing with WPF).

Given that the framework developers themselves will be working with it, you can feel pretty confident that it is here to stay. However, as with any first release, you are almost guaranteed to have some growing pains when the next release comes around.

Personally, I would go for it. It is certainly better than the tightly-coupled-reflection-based alternative.