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    <p><strong>Note:</strong> Anyone coming to this question now, mind the date. This question is nearly 4 years old and the information is relatively outdated. In my experience NHibernate now is relatively easy to use (with the fluent interface), Entity Framework is a legitimate contender, and MicroORMS such as Dapper and Massive are becoming quite popular.</p> <hr> <p>We are re-writing one of our core web applications and I finally got the all clear from management to replace the horrible tangle of stored procedures with an ORM framework for implementing our data access layer.</p> <p>Hooray for me. Now I have to choose one.</p> <p>I have played around a little bit with the following</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.hibernate.org/343.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">NHibernate</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.castleproject.org/ActiveRecord/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Castle ActiveRecord</a> (We would use it to power our DTO objects)</li> <li><a href="http://subsonicproject.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Subsonic</a></li> </ul> <p>Now I know that NHibernate is the true Alt.Netty choice but the problem is that I am working with contractors who as far as I know have never heard of it, and NHibernate has a reputation for quite a learning curve. Subsonic in the meantime seems like a far more straightforward approach. I also am aware of the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa697427(VS.80).aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Entities Framework</a> but am wary of its 'meh' reception and <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/LinqToOracle" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Linq to Oracle</a> but am wary of the fact that I've hardly heard anything about it.</p> <p>So the questions are:</p> <ol> <li>Are there any more frameworks I should be considering?</li> <li>Which do you recommend for my situation?</li> </ol> <p>Some more considerations:</p> <ul> <li>When I say I have a played around a bit with these frameworks, I mean it. I have configured them and used them to pull in some data to make sure it all works. That's the extent of it.</li> <li>This is an Oracle database (as you might have guessed from the inclusion of Linq2Oracle)</li> <li>Since this is a re-write, the database already exists and has a stable schema</li> <li>I am not too worried about performance. Our application usually serves at most a couple people at a time.</li> <li>You guys are the ones who are going to have to answer the torrent of questions I'm gonna have</li> </ul> <p>I'm leaning toward Subsonic, but I'm curious what people might have to say.</p>
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    1. COtry this: http://valueinjecter.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Data%20access%20layer%20%28ORM%29%20with%20the%20Value%20Injecter&referringTitle=Home
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    2. CO@Omu - interesting little utility but in no way is this an ORM
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    3. COit's not an ORM but it's much better if you need full control over your sql
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