# Welcome to NHibernate!

NHibernate is a .NET based object persistence library for relational databases. NHibernate is a port of the excellent Java Hibernate relational persistence tool.

You can find tutorials and samples in the NHibernate community site wiki and blog.

## Latest Version

Details of the latest version of NHibernate can be found on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhibernate/.

## Documentation

All available resources on NHibernate can be found online: NHibernate deep grok.

The reference documentation for NHibernate is available on-line on the website.

## Bug Reports

If you find any bugs please use the JIRA bug tracker.

## Licenses

This software is distributed under the terms of the FSF Lesser GNU Public License (see lgpl.txt).

This product uses software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

- log4net

This product includes source code from an article written by Jason Smith.

- Iesi.Collections - original code can be found at Add Support for "Set" Collections to .NET