When I joined Db4objects a few years ago my first assignment was to research and implement a decent solution for getting db4o to work on the .net platform.

There was already some investigation going on on using the Eclipse JDT API as the basis for a source to source translator which proved to be a wise choice in the long run.

Eventually sharpen was born and after a lot of love we finally reached a point where the translated c# code would look really good.

People would get really interested every time sharpen was mentioned but for several reasons it wasn't publicly available.

Until now. Hooray!

I'm really looking forward to what people will build on top of that.