Is Proxy Factory necessary in NHibernate?

Question

I\'ve this configuration in the hibernate.cfg.xml:

Answer 1

If you're using the latest of NHibernate(2.1), you'll notice that mainline for NH doesn't have a dependency on castle for proxy generation anymore, so all those tutorials you've been looking at are probably out of date.

Basically, you now have a few choices of how you want your dynamic proxies created, so you'll need to explicitly configure which proxy generator you want to use. Examples can be found in this how-to post on forge. A full list of the options is referenced here.

P.S. if you want to keep things simple, just use Castle as the older versions of NHibernate all used it by default.