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title: Bootstrapper 
teaser: Appccelerates your application bootstrapping mechanism
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<h3><a name="Syntax"></a>Syntax<a href="#Syntax" class="section_anchor"></a></h3>
<p>The strategy above shows part of the fluent definition syntax the bootstrapper uses to gain knowledge about the startup and shutdown phase of the system. Here the Extended Backus-Naur-Form of the syntax: </p><script type="syntaxhighlighter" class="brush: csharp"><![CDATA[Syntax = [ Begin ] { Execute } [ End ] .
Begin = "Begin" { With } | End .
End = "End" { EndWith } .
Execute = "Execute" ExecuteAction | ExecuteActionOnExtension | ExecuteActionOnExtensionWithContext .
ExecuteAction = "Expression<Action>" { With | Execute | End } .
ExecuteActionOnExtension = "Expression<Action<TExtension>>" { With | Execute | End } .
ExecuteActionOnExtensionWithContext = "Expression<Func<TContext>>" "Expression<Action<TExtension, TContext>>" { WithOnContext | Execute | EndWithOnContext } .
With = "With" Behavior | LazyBehavior { With | Execute | End } .
WithOnContext = "With" LazyBehaviorWithContext { WithOnContext | Execute | EndWithOnContext } .
EndWith = Behavior | LazyBehavior { EndWith } .
EndWithOnContext = LazyBehaviorWithContext { EndWithOnContext } .
Behavior = "IBehavior<TExtension>" .
LazyBehavior = "Expression<Func<IBehavior<TExtension>>>" .
LazyBehaviorWithContext = "Expression<Func<TContext, IBehavior<TExtension>>>" .]]>
</script><p><img src="img/bootstrappersyntaxebnf.png" width="692"/>
<i>Note:TODO Check EBNF. The diagramm above is created with the amazing <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ebnfvisualize/" rel="nofollow">ebnfvisualize</a>.</i> </p>