Summary

In this chapter, we discussed some of the benefits of NHibernate code generators and the ways to reduce the overhead of creating classes and manually mapping our database to our POCOs.

Specifically, we covered the judging requirements for each of the generation engines, and how they were compared. We also discussed each of the following NHibernate code generation/modeling engines: CodeSmith, NHib-GenAj, Genesis, Visual NHibernate, MyGeneration, NGen, NHModeller, Microsoft T4, and hbm2net.