I've been asked to do some research on Hibernate/NHibernate for an upcoming project. Out team has used Hibernate and will need to port the project to operate in a .NET environment as well. I've read the NHibernate documentation and it's not clear to me how one would go about maintaining both configurations. For instance, the NHibernate document section on Toolset Usage/Code Generation speaks only of Hibernate output, not NHibernate - it describes generating Java, but not C#.

Are the tools robust and solid enough to support continually taking a Hibernate baseline and porting to NHibernate? If there is a website/tutorial/document on doing this, I haven't been able to find it.

I'm sorry if this is a way-basic question, but I'm quite new to this field.

Thanks for the assistance!

Janene

PS cross-posting to both Hibernate and NHibernate forums... hope that's ok?

I'm not aware of any such tools that would ease porting. You will have to make some changes to the mapping files, though it is possible to keep them roughly similar.

The tools chapter in the manual is a direct copy of the one from Hibernate, it wasn't "ported" yet.

Thanks, sergey. I'm hoping to find a straightforward process documented somewhere - I would imagine this sort of thing is done frequently. If you know of a tutorial or example, I'd be grateful.

Janene McCrillis

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