How the EntityCloud appeared ?

[FlexibleCoder]

The EntityCloud actually began to be developed one year and half ago by me and is now published for free under the LGPL license.

The logo and the banner were developed by the user undercover and soon also be available the official site.

[Yunior Pupo Peña]

Hello,

I knew of this project because it's related with ReportingCloud, and now I have a couple of questions:

* How EntityCloud compares against NHibernate, both are OpenSource ORM but i think NH has a very widely adoption,  and  a great  maturity level.
* Is there any plan to integrate EntityCloud with ReportingCloud, and if so, will be too difficult to integrate ReportingCloud width NH too??

Thanks in advance

Pupo

PS: Sorry for my poor English ;)

[FlexibleCoder]

Hello ypupo2002,

Answering your questions:

1. The objective of the EntityCloud is not to compare to other specific ORM or compete with it, the EntityCloud was actually already being developed for about a year ago, now becoming public.

To a year ago came to me the desire to develop an ORM just for fan only and as such, made through a checklist of some of the best known features in the ORMSs and others that not have yet see implemented (ie automatic mark the changed properties for optimized updates). Is not very common to see the synchronization mechanism entities to tables in ORMs.

This ORM in fact this turned out to be fairly complete (in my opinion) and therefore useful. The NHibernate have its merits and derived its massive use has become well known, however is a port of java while EntityCloud this is not a library translated from java and takes advantage of the potential of .NET to have the best possible performance.

2. Yes. There is plans to integrate the EntiyCloud with the ReportingCloud and had no plans to integrate NHibernate but also in the future will see since I have many plans for both EntityCloud as for ReportingCloud scheduled but the community (including you) can contribute by integrating ReportingCloud with the NHibernate.

PS: Sorry for my poor English too ;)