fluent-nhibernate

i have the following scenario public abstract class BaseClass { public virtual int Id {get; set}; public virtual string Name {get; set;} } public class FirstSubClass : BaseClass { //properties and behaviour here } public class SecondSubClass : BaseClass { //properties of SecondSubclass Here } public class ProcessStep { public virtual IList<BaseClass> ContentElements {get; set;} } for mapping i have used following code snippet :- this._sessionFactory = Fluently.Configure().Database(SQLiteConfiguration.Standard .ConnectionString(@"Data Source=SqliteTestSqlDataAccess.s3db; Version=3; New=True;

Do you use SchemaExport and SchemaUpdate in real applications? Initially, you create model and then generate schema? Does it work? Or, you use it only for tests... Usually, I create db (using visual studio database project) and then mappings and persistent classes or EF entities using designer. But now, I want to try code first approach with Fluent NHibernate. I have researched SchemaExport and SchemaUpdate and found some issues. For example, update doesn't delete db objects, creates not null columns like nullable if table exists, doesn't generate primary key on many-to-many tables and so on.

Is there something like Fluent-NHibernate for the original Java Hibernate? If not, why not? Are there any language-specific limitations? I believe Fluent-NHibernate relies on the nice features provided by Linq in C#3.0 if I'm not mistaken. Until Java implements lambda expressions etc I don't think we'll see Fluent Hibernate. I could be wrong though. :) Groovy supports lambda expressions (although they rather confusingly call them closures), and Groovy classes are directly accessible from Java. Perhaps the mappings for Java apps could be written in Groovy. Just a thought. chaotic3quilibrium

Update - Edited config for readability in SO Hi, I've been learning NHibernate for a day or two but getting stuck on one point. I need to be able to execute custom stored procedures and use NHibernate to map them back to domain classes. I have this working for the scenario where the custom query maps back to a object that maps to a database table, as shown by many a nhibernate example (See first section below). However in the config for the second section below, the query pulls only 2 columns from the target table. For this reason, I have created a custom object so that NHibernate has

I have a root object that has a property that is a collection. For example: I have a Shelf object that has Books. // Now public class Shelf { public ICollection<Book> Books {get; set;} } // Want public class Shelf { public IQueryable<Book> Books {get;set;} } What I want to accomplish is to return a collection that is IQueryable so that I can run paging and filtering off of the collection directly from the the parent. var shelf = shelfRepository.Get(1); var filtered = from book in shelf.Books where book.Name == "The Great Gatsby" select book; I want to have that query executed specifically by

i see when i install fluent nhibernate 1.2 from Nuget, it downloads nhibernate 3.1. If i want to use nhibernate 3.2, how would i do that through nuget and it is compatible with fluent nhibernate 1.2 ? Currently, the FluentNHibernate package from the offical NuGet package source, depends on NHibernate.Castle 3.1 (currently, there is no newer version yet), which in turn depends on NHibernate 3.1 (the exact version, not 3.1 or higher). Therefore, NuGet infers a dependency on NHibernate 3.1 when installing FluentNHibernate. So the bottom line is: you can't, until the FluentNHibernate package is