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After several months of development, NHibernate 1.2 is approaching release, as indicated by the change from Beta to CR (Candidate for Release). The latest release fixes most reported bugs and includes numerous small improvements. The release is now available for download as a Windows Installer (.msi) package, and a separate installer contains the API documentation, ready to be integrated into Visual Studio 2005.
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NHibernate is a port of Hibernate Core for Java to the .NET Framework. It handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database. Given an XML description of your entities and relationships, NHibernate automatically generates SQL for loading and storing the objects. Optionally, you can describe your mapping metadata with attributes in your source code.

FIBPlus Developers Guide Part II is available for download now. From it you will know about:

• Working with BLOB fields

• Using unique FIBPlus field types

• Working with array fields

• Using TDataSetsContainer containers

• Additional actions for TpFIBUpdateObject data modifying

• Working with shared transactions

• Batch processing

• Centralized error handling – TpFIBErrorHandler

• Getting TFIBSibEventAlerter events

• Debugging FIBPlus applications

• Monitoring SQL queries

• FIBPlus repositories

• Supporting Firebird 2.0

• Additional FIBPlus features (Full UNICODE_FSS support, NO_GUI compilation option, Using
  SynEdit in editors)

• Unique design-time experts: FIBPlusTools

• How to work with services

• Getting server information

• Managing server users

• Backing up and restoring databases

• Getting statistics about databases

If you want to know how to handle database errors with FIBPlus, read a new article in FIBPlus technology section . The article “FIBPlus: handling database errors” tells about:

• Preparation for error handling

• TpFIBErrorHandler properties and features

• Handling exceptions

and demonstrates Delphi and C++ Builder code samples.

SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.

It supports Firebird and provides a full suite of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns, designed for efficient and high-performing database access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain language.

Full version 0.3.5 changelog

The libdbi-drivers project hosts the database-specific drivers for libdbi, a database abstraction library written in C. Currently, drivers are available for Firebird/Interbase, FreeTDS (MS-SQL and Sybase client), mSQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite/SQLite3.

Release focus: Minor feature enhancements

NHibernate 1.0.4 bugfix version was released at 24 january 2007.

NHibernate is a port of Hibernate Core for Java to the .NET Framework. It handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database. Given an XML description of your entities and relationships, NHibernate automatically generates SQL for loading and storing the objects. Optionally, you can describe your mapping metadata with attributes in your source code.

All Firebird versions supported by the FirebirdSql.Firebird drivers (version 1.6 and 1.7) are supported, including Firebird Embedded.

There is also NHibernate 1.2.0.Beta3 version available for download, which supports latest Firebird .NET provider version 2.0. This version includes support for using stored procedures with entities mapped by NHibernate, support for .NET 2.0 generic and nullable types, and many other improvements and features ported from Hibernate 3.x.

osFinancials is an open source accounting software package, started in august 2006 and is released under the GPL. It was forked from the open sources of TurboCASH. The developers have implemented the Firebird (database server) in the software for (external-) data storage and enhancing the multi-user capabilities.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Release focus: Major feature enhancements