Oh, so this is how you use hibernate.

I've been using hibernate for a pretty long time (I was one of the micro donors to help them get hibernate.org), but it's always been a fairly black box to me. It seems every time I use it for a project, I understand something that I was not-so-blissfully ignorant of in the past. Today as I was writing some NHibernate mappings, I ran across this cheatsheet. It's a little out of date (substitute "role" with "name"), but it brings clarity in 30 seconds what the hibernate documentation rarely seems to do for me. It's not that the hibernate docs are bad, it's just that there's so many minute details, and not enough simple samples.

Anyway - kudos to the folks at NDP software.