Best approach for building NHibernate DTO's

Question

I\'m new to NHibernate (and ORMS) and trying to come to grips with the myriad of different options it presents. For reference, I\'m using Fluent NHibernate with seperate bus

Answer 1

DTO's are meant to be "data transfer objects". That is, dumb objects used for passing values or collections of values around in your system. They shouldn't be responsible for persisting themselves, or even map 1-1 to domain objects in your domain layer.