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As of today, db4objects releases its Eclipse based Java to C# source code conversion tool "sharpen" as free software. sharpen is the "secret sauce" that enables us to provide the [db4o object database engine] in native versions for the Java and .NET platforms Read More...

Adriano has just published a very cool article demonstrating how to implement an interactive query console using Linq for db4o: In this post we'll implement a very basic Linq Console application that supports " ad hoc " queries allowing users to enter Read More...

Bytecode analysis and enhancement becomes increasingly important as we strive to improve on persistence transparency. The expressiveness of mainstream languages of the day just won't cut it. Db4oTool.exe is the swiss army knife of the transparency inclined. Read More...

In the java world a commonly accepted convention for naming constants is to use uppercase letters with words separated by underscores ("_"): MIN_DATE, MAX_DATE, etc. In the .Net world however the official recommendation is to use PascalCase to name constants Read More...

In this post I'll discuss a key concept of db4o and how it improved in our latest versions: object activation. I'll focus mainly on the .Net version but these concepts apply equally well to the Java version. In order to access some resources listed in Read More...

I've just finished COR-283 . This means that starting right now, instead of embedding the third party libraries we are using, we will release them along with our own assemblies. For instance, we used to embed the assemblies Mono.Cecil and Cecil.FlowAnalysis Read More...

The first thing my feed aggregator told me this morning is that the .net framework 3.0 has been released. This new framework is the combination of the .net framework 2.0 runtime, plus a set of new APIs, mainly: Windows Presentation Foundation (was Avalon), Read More...