Product Description

In the classic style of Manning's "In Action" series, NHibernate in Action shows .NET developers how to use the NHibernate Object/Relational Mapping tool. This book is a translation from Java to .NET, as well as an expansion, of Manning's bestselling Hibernate in Action. All traces of Java have been carefully replaced by their .NET equivalents. The book shows how to implement complex business objects, and later teaches advanced techniques like caching and session management. Readers will discover how to implement persistence in a .NET application, and how to configure NHibernate to specify the mapping information between business objects and database tables. Readers will also be introduced to the internal architecture of NHibernate by progressively building a complete sample application using Agile methodologies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41521 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 367 pages

About the Author
Pierre Henri Kuate is one of the main developers on the NHibernate project team and is a major contributor to the NHibernate forum. He's responsible for managing the NHivbernate documentation, web site and forum on the Hibernate.org site. He started using NHibernate more than two years ago in commercial development.

Tobin Harris has worked with NHibernate since it was in early Beta. His passion is tools and practices that help build quality software at high speeds. As an independent consultant and entrepreneur, Tobin works with companies across the globe in various sectors including banking, personal finance, healthcare, software components and new media. In 2001, Tobin was the founder of the Open Source SqlBuddy project. Subsequently he has worked in partnership with Frost Innovation on Gaia Ajax Widgets, an Open Source Ajax suite for .NET. Tobin obtained his degree in Software Engineering at Leeds Metropolitan University, and continues to work and live in Leeds, UK.

Christian Bauer is a member of the Hibernate developer team and a trainer, consultant, and product manager for Hibernate, EJB 3.0, and JBoss Seam at JBoss. He is the lead author of Hibernate in Action and Java Persistence with Hibernate.

The second coauthor, Gavin King, is a lead developer at JBoss, the creator of Hibernate and a member of the EJB 3.0 (JSR 220) expert group. He also leads the Web Beans JSR 299, a standardization effort involving Hibernate concepts, JSF, and EJB 3.0.

Customer Reviews

Nhibernate in Action, a must for a developer
this book is really good! I would say you need to understand c#, databases and Xml before reading this book.

the structure of the book is really good, in the sense, the author's kick start you with a simple sample.. some code to get your head around, with out all the complex reasons why.

then they revisit some of the topics and go into more detail. I learnt plenty of gems, very nice.

I would highly reconmend this book for any developer wanting to do some Object Relational Mapping.

Slightly dissapointing
While the coverage of issues and quality of writing is very good, I was left slightly disappointed. For me there were not enough examples (especially of querying with HQL and ICriteria). Still it's the best NHibernate book by virtue of being the only NHibernate book.