Hi,

I'm setting up hibernate for an example from the book "Beginning Hibernate". It says I need
to install "hibernate-tools". The hibernate-tools website says this is part of JBoss-tools.
The JBoss website says JBoss-tools is part of JBoss Studio. I would like to install
JBoss Studio without having to use eclipse. Is this possible? If so, how?

thanks,
Matias

Hi,

"hibernate-tools" is jar you can use this jar for creating the *.htm files hibernate.cfg.xml and model etc from the database . You do not need to install JBoss Studio just download the hibernate-tools.jar and run the targets using ant.

<taskdef name="hibernatetool"
classname="org.hibernate.tool.ant.HibernateToolTask"
classpathref="toolslib" />

<target name="default">
<hibernatetool destdir="./generated">
<classpath>
<path location="." />
<path location="./classes" />
</classpath>

running above hbm2ddl task to export database schema into ./generated/sql.ddl file. Other tasks you can use are:

hbm2java – generate POJOs
hbm2dao – generate DAOs
hbmtemplate – generate any custom code you want using templates (aka scaffolding)

<configuration configurationfile="hibernate.cfg.xml"/>
<hbm2ddl export="false" outputfilename="sql.ddl"/>
</hibernatetool>
</target>

Hi Sandeep,

I'm still in a bit of jam about how to get started. I need to change
the following build.properties file (which came with "Beginning
Hibernate 2e" Ch3) for my environment (with example 1):

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# 1. Path to the hibernate install directory
hibernate.home=/hibernate/hibernate-3.5.1

# 2. Path to the hibernate-tools install directory
hibernate.tools.home=/hibernate/hibernate-tools-3.2.4

# 3. Path to hibernate-tools.jar relative to hibernate.tools.home
hibernate.tools.path=/plugins/org.hibernate.eclipse_3.2.4.GA-R200905070146-H18/lib/tools

# 4. Path to hibernate-tools hibernate libraries relative to hibernate.tools.home
hibernate.tools.lib.path=/plugins/org.hibernate.eclipse_3.2.4.GA-R200905070146-H18/lib/hibernate

# 5. Path to the SLF4J implementation JAR for the logging framework to use
slf4j.implementation.jar=/slf4j/slf4j-1.5.11/slf4j-simple-1.5.11.jar

# 6. Path to the HSQL DB install directory
hsql.home=/hsqldb/hsqldb_2.0.0

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I'm pretty sure I understand the contents of paths 1, 5, 6. However, I'm
unclear about the contents of paths 2, 3, and 4. Does anyone see what
these should be? I did read the book but I don't get the whole picture.

1. What should the contents these directories be?

2. And, how can I obtain these items?

3. Do I need all of them?

m.