Why are OR-mappers cool? I dont know? My experience with them has been limited and the time I did use them the support for common constructs was very poor (at best): I don't think its a good idea for a OR-mapper to caugh up a SQL select query for each...
Now the Service Container (Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection) concepts are being adopted by the Microsoft Pattern & Practices group in their CAB and EntLib frameworks, maybe I can talk about a service container implementation I made a...