Beautiful, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]> wrote:

> <any>
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> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Vekaz Turković <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Thank you Diego, I was afraid this will end up unanswered :) That was one
>> way I considered doing it, but there's also Activities who are,
>> relationship-wise, the same as notes. Both Notes and Activities will most
>> probably hold a lot of data. I am afraid that, with so many relationships,
>> performance might become an issue pretty soon. Would it be possible to use a
>> denormalized database; Note would hold type and id of the entity it is
>> attached to?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Diego Mijelshon <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> This was discussed last month (
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers/browse_thread/thread/973df7dce9c5e0dc/97d49dac7dc21f85?lnk=gst&q=notes#97d49dac7dc21f85)
>>> and it is certainly on topic :-)
>>>
>>> In short: the model is simple. Several classes have a collection of notes
>>> (or, more precisely, a List, because the order probably matters). You could
>>> create an interface (IHaveNotes) to deal with this in your code and make it
>>> easy to add/retrieve notes from any entity.
>>>
>>> Then, you have at least two possible ways to map this:
>>> - Note is a component type, there is one table per Notes collection
>>> - Note is an entity, there is one table for the Notes and a many-to-many
>>> table per each collection, mapped with cascade="all-delete-orphan"
>>>
>>> Note that the data implementation should NOT change your model. It's
>>> always an IList<Note>.
>>>
>>>     Diego
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 08:01, moohzor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> This isn't strictly nhibernate related, but I thought this would still
>>>> be the right place to ask.
>>>>
>>>> I have a Note entity, related to almost all other entities (you can
>>>> attach a note to pretty much anything else). All these entities have a
>>>> property to hold a collection of notes (but notes don't have to have
>>>> reference to the entity they're related to). I don't know how to best
>>>> model this in the database and map in hbm. How would you do this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
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