What is the role and purpose of a bootstrapper?

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Published on 2010-05-03T08:06:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 8:18 UTC
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I'm working on an application which uses a bootscrapper object to perform some operations when the application first starts. e.g. registers IoC objects, puts certain variables into the asp.net Application session object, does some security checks etc.

I had a look around the internet and couldn't find a reference to a bootscrapper pattern, or any article about the subject.

Is this a known pattern under a different name?

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