Can nhibernate be used without doing the XML mapping?

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Can nhibernate be used without doing the XML mapping?

I have a lot of classes and this is a lot of work to do the XML mappings.

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Yes, nHibernate can be used without XBM files.

There is a fluent interface for configuration and mapping, which should give you a more type safe way to map your classes.

You can use the auto mapping feature and fall back to fluent mapping as needed.

Oded 2010-10-17 10:20:28

@Oded, you've answered two of my answers tonight. Thanks for that

Am 2010-10-17 10:49:57

"However, you still need to do the mapping." FNH has thing called auto-mapping. It is possible to avoid manual mapping. Doing that right now with huge success. http://wiki.fluentnhibernate.org/Auto_mapping

Arnis L. 2010-10-17 11:49:11

@Arnis - Thanks for the tid-bit. Wasn't aware of this feature. Answer updated.

Oded 2010-10-17 14:04:57

You can also use nhibernate attributes. Of course, what this does is serialize the XML files in the background in a memorystream... But it's much more convenient than writing the XML by hand.

Quandary 2010-10-17 14:48:53

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It's possible to use Castle ActiveRecord too. It does not require mapping hbm files.

afsharm 2010-10-17 11:47:06

All mentioned technologies are creating XML under the cover. The only framework that maps entities directly without XML is ConfORM. But you can use it only with NHibernate 3.

Sly 2010-10-18 06:36:19

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