It's all about ORM and SOA. Apart from the vogue, this two topics are very exciting technologies and i have been working with these from some time.

Regarding ORM, i have developed the Retina.Net project totally in my free time (i owe my family a few hundred hours...) and is now in ALPHA stage. The persistence code is working and it has a nice architecture to begin with.

It's very extensible and i think that with some time and work (and maybe some help from the community) we will have a very nice ORM library to use in our projects. I have been working on this project for almost a year, and started using some other fine projects as base, particulary the Sisyphus project that seems to be dead since year 2002 and was an excellent startup but had several shortcomings that pushed me to start my own project.

The project is published on GotDotNet at http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/retina and we hope that you guys maybe take a look at the source code and give me your opinions.

I will be posting some architecture and functional details in short.

See you!

Andrés G Vettori
MCSE/MCSD/MCT
Leader of the C# Community of the Microsoft Users Group Argentina

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