[fluent-nhib] Re: ClassMap Generator?

2009-02-04 Thread James Gregory
Yeah, good point by Chris. Fluent NHibernate doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing affair, you can replace your entities bit-by-bit with FNH and it'll be happy; it might also be worth considering just writing new mappings with FNH until everyone is familiar enough with it to port the rest of your ma

[fluent-nhib] Re: ClassMap Generator?

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Marisic
Also don't forget you can use any combination of HBM, Mapping and Automapping! On Feb 3, 10:13 pm, bbehrens wrote: > I was wondering if any of the project owners would like to have a > ClassMap generator.  The idea is you take existing .hbm files and > it creates the ClassMaps for you.  Exactly

[fluent-nhib] Re: ClassMap Generator?

2009-02-04 Thread James Gregory
I agree with Paul, our codebase changes way too rapidly to build a tool so dependent on it. Maybe when things stabilise and we enter into a regular release cycle then it might be achievable, but that isn't going to be for a while yet. I'd definitely suggest using automapping if at all possible. On

[fluent-nhib] Re: ClassMap Generator?

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Batum
I like the idea of a tool that will generate class maps based on hbm xml, but I suspect that the significant amount of change that our API is currently undergoing is a barrier. Keeping the tool up to date could be quite a burden. Have you already ruled out automapping? On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:13