Hi.

I read some articles stating that is necessary to sign the class properties as Overridable (virtual in C# if I am not wrong). But why? What kind of problems could I find if I do not follow this rule?

Regards,
rferj

Proxying (lazy loading) doesn't work, because Hibernate can't subclass your class with a proxy. They don't need to be virtual if you always specify lazy="false" or set the default to be false.

Hi Steve.

Is it true for my methods also, or just the properties need to be signed as Overridable?

TIA,
rferj

Just any properties you map with NHibernate. If you don't want lazy loading you don't have to do it at all - just specify lazy="false" in the class attributes.

Steve

you can avoid using <<virtual>> by creating an interface to the class.
creating interfaces to classes is one of the OO programming principles:
Program to an interface not to an implementation