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<h1>Welcome to NHibernate.</h1>
<hr>
<p>
	<a href="http://www.nhibernate.org/">NHibernate</a> is a .NET based object persistence library for relational databases.
	NHibernate is a port of the excellent Java <a href="http://www.hibernate.org/">Hibernate</a>
	relational persistence tool.
</p>
<h2>Latest Version</h2>
<p>
	Details of the latest version of NHibernate can be found on SourceForge at
	<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhibernate/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhibernate/</a>.
</p>

<h2>Documentation</h2>
<p>
	Documentation is not complete right now. We are working on documenting the code as
	it is being developed.
	<br/>All available resources on NHibernate can be found online:
	<a href="http://wiki.nhibernate.org/display/NH/Documentation">http://wiki.nhibernate.org/display/NH/Documentation</a>.
<p>
	The API documentation is in MSDN format; thanks to <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndoc/">NDoc</a>.
</p>
</p>
<p>
	The help can also be integrated into Visual Studio.NET using the following steps:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>
		Download and install H2Reg from <a href="http://helpware.net/mshelp2/h2reg.htm">http://helpware.net/mshelp2/h2reg.htm</a>
	</li>
	<li>
		Copy H2Reg.exe and H2Reg.ini from the H2Reg installation folder (typically C:\Program Files\HelpWare\H2Reg) to
		the NHibernate Help2 folder (e.g. C:\NHibernate\doc\en\Help2).
	</li>
	<li>
		Register the help collection from the command line using the following command from the NHibernate Help2 folder.
	</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
	<code>
		H2Reg -r CmdFile=NHibernateCollection.ini
	</code>
</blockquote>
<ul dir="ltr">
	<li>
		If you need to unregister the help collection, the command is as follows:
	</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
	<code>
		H2Reg -u CmdFile=NHibernateCollection.ini
	</code>
</blockquote>
<p>
	We will ride the coat tails of Hibernate's excellent documentation for a while.
	The Hibernate documentation for the version we are porting can be found at
	<a href="http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/">http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/</a>.
</p>

<h2>Bug Reports</h2>
<p>
	As we mentioned before, this software is still being developed. So if you do
	find any bugs please use the <a href="http://jira.nhibernate.org/">JIRA bug tracker</a>.
</p>

<h2>Licenses</h2>
<p>
	This software is distributed under the terms of the FSF Lesser Gnu Public License (see lgpl.txt).
</p>
<p>
	This product uses software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
</p>
<ul>
	<li>log4net</li>
</ul>
<p>
	This product uses software copyrighted by DigitalCraftsmen
	(http://www.digitalcraftsmen.com.br) that is Licensed under the Apache License,
	Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
</p>
<ul>
	<li>Castle.DynamicProxy</li>
</ul>
<p>
	This product includes source code derived from a sample written by Mattias Sjogren.
</p>
<ul>
	<li>
		HashCodeProvider - original code can be found at <a href="http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/samples/misc.asp">
			http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/samples/misc.asp</a>
	</li>
</ul>
<p>
	This product includes source code from an article written by Jason Smith.
</p>
<ul>
	<li>
		Iesi.Collections - original code can be found at <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/sets.asp">
			Add Support for "Set" Collections to .NET</a>
	</li>
</ul>
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