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1. I'm attempting to come up with a deployment strategy(ASP.Net). Currently I'm manually defining the locations of the hibernate-mappings files w/i the code but this won't work as I want to use a precompile option for the deployment (if there's a way to make this work please let me know). I'm currently looking at 2 methods.

a) define the locations of the mappings in the nhibernate configuration files or
b) specify the location relative to the application root in the code (I originally tried this and wasn't successful).
c) is there a c??

here's a sample mapping that doesn't seem to be working


This fails with the following error:



I'm not sure how to diagnose this problem.



2. In designing the overall structure I have two primary goals:

a) provide a more granular save model than simply mutable="false"
b) completely abstract session/transactions, et al, away from the business logic.

The overall scheme that I want to use is this.


View Logic
Business Logic
DAL
Nhibernate POCO's


To be more specific, I want to wrap all of the NHibernate POCO's in protection classes with specific attributes to help determine if an object is allowed to be saved, et al. At this time I'm contemplating making the "business objects" be a part of the DAL (DAL returns them, persists them, etc) rather than on top of the DAL. Anyone with any experience and/or insight into this is more than welcome to comment.


The concern that I have right now is with collections. To give a slightly more concrete example.


class nhibernate_poco_address
...

class nhibernate_poco_address_wrapper
private nhibernate_poco_address variable_name;
...


class business_object_person
private IList address_collection; // collection of nhibernate_poco_address_wrapper's


My concern is with loading/saving (mostly saving). Is there a way to simply hand off the collection of wrappers to nhibernate to save (using an interface or inheritance) or will I have to manually save each and every object in the collection? If I have to manually save each and every object, exactly how will this affect the persistence classes with me not using NHibernates collections? Are there any specific issues I should know about?


I apologize if any of this seems ignorant. I'm new to using ORM's so please bear with me.