What is so great about ORM?

Question

So I\'m having a head against the wall moment and hoping somebody can come help either remove the wall or stop my head from moving!!

Over the last 3/4 weeks I\'ve been i

Answer 1

There are basically two questions here:

What's great about ORMs? There are similar questions on Stackoverflow. See:

• What are the advantages of using an ORM?
• Is everyone here jumping on the ORM band wagon?

How can I improve NHibernate startup time? See:

• http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/10/26/Real-World-NHibernate-Reducing-startup-times-for-large-amount-of.aspx
• http://nhforge.org/blogs/nhibernate/archive/2009/03/13/an-improvement-on-sessionfactory-initialization.aspx