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Hi - I'm new to the communnity and develop code in both Java and C3. I'd like to evaulate Sharpen, but am having trouble finding the download link. Please advise. Any help is appreciated. Thank you, Fletcher  

yGuy:can Sharpen be used as a tool to generate source code that may then used with any license? Are we still free to choose any license we want for the generated source code?  Yes.

Well, Adriano Verona's blog post title is really ''Running Sharpen Tests'' but he also did a great job at introducing the first steps for trying Sharpen (db4o's conversion tool that translates Java code to C# code). As you might know the tool (which is used internally to generate the .NET version of db4o) has been released as open source. Give it ...

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 from a single code base. Features include: mapping between Java and .NET native ...

As of Today our so far internal java to c# conversion utility, sharpen, is being released as free software. As an example of its usage we're going to write a simple contact management application in java and convert it to c#. While it is possible to use sharpen to convert a complete application it is advisable to handle this as an iterative ...