Some thoughts on WCF Data Services and NHibernate 

In my current Silverlight 4 project I use a variation of the CQRS pattern where business-oriented commands are used to create, update or change the data, while WCF Data Services (formally ADO.NET Data Services) is used as a general-purpose query service.

Although WCF Data Services has been designed with the Entity Framework in mind, my desire to use an advanced ORM with features like 2nd level caching has let me to Shawn Wildermuth's attempt to support NHibernate as a WCF Data Service provider, now part of Linq.NHibernate. But regardless of all the goodness of NHibernate, not everything went as smooth as I hoped for.

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