As the release of Entity Framework 4.0 is getting closer, it's time to have a look at the competition. After the release of NHibernate 2.1(.1), the NHibernate team is working on the next big release based on the .NET 3.5 framework.
A selection of some of the upcoming features in NHibernate 3.0:
- QueryOver: Allows the usage of ICriteria in a type safe way.
1: IList<Student> students = session.QueryOver<Student>()
2: .Where(s => s.Name == "Fabio")
3: .And(s => s.StudentNumber > 100)
4: .List();
- New Linq provider: A new linq provider is coming up fully based on AST. This will replace the current NHibernate.Linq 1.0 project.
- Strongly typed configuration for multiple parts of NHibernate(caching, sessionfactory,...)
- Better WCF integration for session management
- ...
I think we'll have a very interesting future in ORM land...