Putting It All Together

Our journey with NHibernate has come to an end. I hope you have enjoyed reading this book as much as I have enjoyed writing it. By now, you should have a fairly good idea of NHibernate’s potential as well as its limitations.

I think the most important subjects we talked about were:

• The various mapping techniques, collection alternatives, and querying APIs.
• The extensibility mechanisms, of which we barely scratched the surface.
• The listeners and interceptors, on which we can totally change the way NHibernate operates.
• The Validation API, which is very rich and extensible.

We barely scratched the surface, though. There is no better way to learn NHibernate than to actually work with it. So do your own experimentations, look at the source code, and tweak the various configuration settings.

With that said, I wish you a good experience. Remember to share your findings with others!