In this last chapter, we are going to look at some of the important NHibernate features that we do not use on a daily basis. You may not find all of these features to be useful everywhere. So you might want to use your best judgement to choose appropriate features based on your requirements.

We would begin the chapter by talking about concurrency control, how it is important, and what NHibernate offers out of the box to deal with concurrency issues.

We would then touch upon event system of NHibernate and find out how to listen to different events and plug in our own logic when a particular event is about to happen or has happened. We would also look at a practical example that utilizes the event system of NHibernate to simplify a cumbersome and repetitive business requirement.

Next feature we would look into is different levels of support for caching available in NHibernate. We would try to go a bit deep into different types of caches...