GENNIT has been a work in progress since early 2005, initially GENNIT was a desktop application called codegen, which used my own personal templates for creating a Data Access Layer and Database SQL script. You can see a post I made about it on my personal blog back in March 2005.

I used codegen for my own projects with huge success. Being able to deliver projects much quicker and having my own custom templates made light work of multiple tier systems. Getting the data tier out of the way at design time lets me focus entirely on logic and presentation tiers, the parts that really make a system unique.

It wasn’t until late 2006 and the added commercial experience of using more robust data access layer technologies (namely Castle ActiveRecord and NHibernate) did I see the opportunity for others to use this code generation technology to their advantage, hence the creation of GENNIT.