Carsten is mainly interested in reusable components for software development. He still has the dream that building new software is just gluing some available components together.

As a main committer of Apache Cocoon, he's investigating a lot of time in factoring out reusable components and concepts of Cocoon into Excalibur. This work includes the sourceresolve, the xml and the xmlizer package.

Apart from his activities in Cocoon and Avalon, he is the chief architect of the Open Source Group at S&N AG, Germany. There he tries to make come true his wishes regarding software ...