Learning NHibernate 4

The NHibernate session architecture

We looked at configuration, sessionFactory, and session among other things in the previous section. These three components encapsulate most of the functionality offered by NH. I do not mean this in literal sense. If you look at NHibernate source code, you will see that a lot of NHibernate features are implemented independently of these components. But these components are gateways into using these features.

Following diagram shows how these three relate to each other:

The preceding diagram represents components of a real life application. Layers above Data Access Layer are represented in an abstract way, combining ...