Having worked with database applications for many years, I have come across a number of different object-relational mapping strategies and tools. However, most of them has had built-in design issues that caused me to dislike them after a short while. One of the latest was Castle ActiveRecord.

Fortunately - in the software industry - if you dislike something, you can code your own solution. After a talk with my colleague Lars Thorup and some inspiration by Christian Liensberger I decided it was time to create something that was simpler, more flexible, more testable and promoting better design. Frog.NET was born, and is now an open source project hosted on Google Code.

We have been using Frog.NET on an internal project for a couple of months now, and it has been great to get rid of some of the problems we experienced with Castle ActiveRecord.

Check it out here: http://frogdotnet.googlecode.com/

By Sune Gynthersen