I did not find a lot of information on using NHibernate in combination with a MySQL database. The reason I want to do this at all is quite simple, though: My ISP hosts ASP.NET 2 and MySQL databases. And finding an ISP that hosts SQL-Server 2005 and ASP.NET 2 at a price you can pay when you don't make money with your site is a hard task around here. Apart from that, I don't want my code to be dependent on any database system, and NHibernate provides an excellent way to achieve this goal. This is not...

With ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft ships a session management implementation that look like a nice solution. Sadly, however, it looks like this is not designed for reusability. It seems to be tightly coupled to ASP and not usable outside of web application. We are currently developing a component framework for .NET. Thus we need session management, and we need it for normal client-server applications, too. Sure enough, we do not want to create a new session management implementation if we don't have to....