History
2011
Relase of ComBeans ORM for Visual Studio 2010, a Database-First Object Relational Mapping system. Unlike Entity Framework and nHybernate it supports real world applications.
ComBeans integrates with SQL Server (2005 and 2008). Objects and code is generated by an extension to MS Visual Studio 2010.
2008
Incremental improvements based on accumulated experience Used today by Visma.
2004
Simplified underlying model; focus on most common cases External DSL without generation from UML Used by Bizweb.
2000
Focus: UML, ISO RM-ODP, fast database mapping code External DSL, generate COM+ or .NET Basis for first versions of Netaccount product, used in ”COMPASS” EU project.
1997
(called ”SCF”, Server Component Framework) Focus: COM components for ”business objects” stored in relational database Metadata based At the time, writing COM components without ComBeans required hundreds of lines of simple bookkeeping code that had to be written manually for each single component.