I’m looking for an editor that has the help from
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibernate/html/mapping.html
built in, and allows simple editing of the XML files in a GUI fashion. I realise there’s CodeSmith and MyGeneration, but from what I remember these only go one way, and don’t allow editing existing HBM files.
Probably worth taking a look at the NHibernate Query Analyzer by Oren Eini. Primarily used to analyze HQL queries it also has a fairly useful HBM editor:
NHibernate Query Analyzer Screenshot http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/5617/nhqa.gif
Old Project Page (with flash demo): http://ayende.com/projects/nhibernate-query-analyzer.aspx
New Project Page: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/NHibernateQueryAnalyzer
This will allow editing for HBM files and will show all of the available attributes for each mapping node.
Given that you can download the source code it wouldn’t be that trivial to add the inline help.