Hi i am just trying to create the table directly through mapping classes in hibernate.

i need to set the property <hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto> to "create-drop" in my hibernate.cfg.xml file.

But my requirement is i dont want to drop and reacreate the table every time i start the application which is happening in the above case. so i set my <hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto> to "validate".

IT is working fine when i am not using any build tool.
Now when i am building the project through Ant i am not able to get away with that "drop and create thing everytime i am restarting the application"

Please find below my configuration and build file code which i am using to create the schema:

hibernate.hbm.xml

<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>

<!-- difining the dialect of the hibernate-->


<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">
validate
</property>

<property name="hibernate.dialect">
org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect
</property>

<!-- difining the driver class for the databse-->

so on ..


build.xml


<!--creating the database schema automatically -->

<taskdef name="hibernatetool" classname="org.hibernate.tool.ant.HibernateToolTask" classpathref="project.classpath"/>
<target name="schemaexport" depends="compile, copymetafiles" description="Exports a generated schema to DB and file">
<hibernatetool destdir="${basedir}">
<classpath path="${build.dir}"/>
<configuration configurationfile="${build.dir}/hibernate.cfg.xml"/>
<hbm2ddl
drop="false"
create="false"
export="true"
outputfilename="MoneyManagement-ddl.sql"
delimiter=";"
format="true"/>

</hibernatetool>
</target>


i am really stuck in this done lots of browsing and all ..there is no validate option in hibernatetool task define using ant.

Any help on this will be appreciated!!!