The right place for bug reporting or requiring additional features is

here

Since the project is new, it is normal to have something to fix. The problem is that my testing would just be not sufficient, so your help will really be appreciated. Thanks!

With a little delay I found people complaining about the schema file missing from the db2hbm deployed package. Now the file is included in the download package, and yanch provided a shortcut in the doc to download the file from sourceforge. Thanks!

Well, a few word about db2hbm and Oracle ( and any other database but MSSQL now ). I used the schema information provided by NH as long as possible, but these information does not provides the required details in order to discover completely the foreign keys, and foreign keys are necessary for creating associations. Not really an NH problem, actually NH leverages ADO.NET for schema inquiry, but ADO.NET seems to miss the foreign key part. So the only solution to have db2hbm working for all database is to provide a custom foreign key crawler for the DB.

First of all I renamed the project on Sourceforge. Now it is more sensible NHibernate Workbench.

In the SVN repository there is now a tag to the version 1.0.0.11, and the trunk claim to be the version 1.0.0.2.00.

Now I’m planning to allow to use NH Workbench attached to a running application: this should help us to play with application compiled without mappings ( ie ConfOrm and Fluent NH ). Then I would like to improve the “Probe” class letting it be more versatile and modifiable by the user, probably using some sort of script engine: I’m thinking to use IronPython, but any suggestion are welcome. Just to clarify: the probe class serves to insolate NHWorkbench from the NH version used by the project under test. We basically runs the test in a separate app domain, but we need the “probe” type to be unbounded to any NH specific version. This is done by using reflection, but it would be easier to be done in a script. The same engine will be useful to write some NHibernate testing: instead of use just HQL, we will be able to submit some portion of code on the fly and see what happen. The other step is to allow the user writing a mapping on the fly and imemdiately see what happen ( by using hbm2net behind the scenes ). Ok, it’s a lot of work, I’ve no idea the order this will be done, let me know if you have any idea and preference.

Sometimes I receive some notification on where source code for both db2hbm and hbm2net are located. The best way is to check-out the source of the NHContrib project: https://nhcontrib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nhcontrib

hbm2net is still in alfa, but I frequently use it in my projects as a class generator. It really lack some documentation: it is really a powerful artifact generator, and by writing proper T4 templates any artifact can be generated. Db2hbm is working ok for MSSQL, but there is not yet an implementation for oracle and other DB, even if Ricardo Peres provided me some interesting code to work on.

Hope this help who’s looking for these tools source code.

Just looking around for some related NHibernate projects, I found this open source profiler. For people who start to use NHibernate and before to buy something more accurate as NHProf, it is really useful having a log easy to read to discover performance or bad usage issues.

As you probably guess, the Fatica.Labs.HqlEditor evolved as a component used by NH Workbench, that is basically a tool ispired by the old and wise NHQA by Ayende. There is, in comparison, some new ideas and some missing required functions. Anyway I decided to publish a first drop because it already help me on my day job. If you find the project useful please consider visits the following links:

• The SourceForge project location
• The SourceForge forum to submit bugs and feature requests
• The last release download location
• This site for staying tuned ;)

And, if you want to join the project, please let me know.