Hi!

I want to create a simple GUI where users can edit, update and create Hibernate persisted classes. I know this might not be the right place for this topic, since it essentially has nothing to do with Hibernate. But since Hibernate is related to data models in Java, does anyone know such a framework? My approach so far is to create Swing GUIs. However, this can be a tedious task when having to create labels and input fields for every getter and setter that is used in a data class.

thanks

I know the post is very old, but is there already a solution? I would like to create my entity model with a gui and generate hbm.xml and java files of the model.
If the whole thing is versioned changes could be exported e.g. as a diff which could be used for migration.

Well, there are a fair number of E-R GUIs out there, you could use use one of those to create your tables and then the Hibernate reverse-engineering tool to create your bean-class skeletons and mappings. From bean classes to Swing GUI, I haven't seen a fully-automatic tool, but a good IDE should make writing the code pretty quick.

One of the features i would like to see in such a tool is to be able to design on a logic layer on which i can define navigable associations. Such a feature is very important because the standard reverse engineering tool creates bidirectional associations automatically. This ends up in high coupling of the parts. It would be nice to be able to have a nice UML designer with which i can do such work and forward engineer to xml files and java files.