Does anyone know of a good tool to reverse engineer mappings and business classes for NHibernate? NHibernate is best for greenfield development, but we also need to work with large legacy databases. I’ve tried NGen, which does ok, but it does the entire DB and you cannot select individual tables or map to sprocs and it maps a UNIQUEIDENTIFIER to a UNIQUEIDENTIFIER(should have been to a GUID).
We do have a corporate budget, so the tool doesn’t have to be free. I understand that Frans has said the next version of LLBLGen will provide support for NHibernate and other 3rd parties (Is LL to be the one generator to rule them all?), but that’s 4th quarter or later.
We use LLBLGen exclusively and LOVE it. Since we utilize legacy databases as well it was a perfect fit. Maybe an alpha or beta will be available earlier?