NHibernate Ecosystem

S#arp Architecture

Jason Dentler — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:41:33 GMT

Pronounced "Sharp Architecture," this is a solid architectural foundation for rapidly building maintainable web applications leveraging the ASP.NET MVC framework with NHibernate.

Castle ActiveRecord for NHibernate 2.1.2

Jason Dentler — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:28:01 GMT

The Castle ActiveRecord project is an implementation of the ActiveRecord pattern for .NET. The ActiveRecord pattern consists on instance properties representing a record in the database, instance methods acting on that specific record and static methods acting on all records.

Castle ActiveRecord is built on top of NHibernate, but its attribute-based mapping free the developer of writing XML for database-to-object mapping, which is needed when using NHibernate directly.

Support for Castle Active Record is handled through the Castle Project Users google group.

Unofficial NHibernate Add Ins

Jason Dentler — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:16:29 GMT

A great collection of NHibernate add ins and examples outside the scope of NHibernate core.

Support for uNHAddIns is provided through their google group.

Fluent NHibernate

Jason Dentler — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:53:10 GMT

Fluent, XML-less, compile safe, automated,convention-based mappings for NHibernate.

Fluent NHibernate 1.1 includes the minimum necessary NHibernate 2.1.2 assemblies, including Castle Dynamic Proxy. Additional officially supported proxy frameworks, XML schemas, release notes, and other support files are included in the NH 2.1.2 official release.

Support for Fluent NHibernate is provided through the FNH website at http://support.fluentnhibernate.org/