I use Hibernate + SQLite and i need to support updating database schema when:
 - a) table is added 
 - b) table is removed
 - c) columnd is added
 - d) column is removed
My hibernate configuration:    
Code:
lConf.setProperty("hibernate.dialect", "app.sqlite.SQLiteDialect");
    lConf.setProperty("hibernate.connection.driver_class", "org.sqlite.JDBC");
    lConf.setProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "update");
I can paste here SQLiteDialect if needed.
My database is not updated when new database entity is added and i the exception occures:    
Code:
Caused by: java.util.NoSuchElementException
       at java.util.StringTokenizer.nextToken(Unknown Source)
       at org.hibernate.tool.schema.extract.internal.InformationExtractorJdbcDatabaseMetaDataImpl.getColumn(InformationExtractorJdbcDatabaseMetaDataImpl.java:469)
       at org.hibernate.tool.schema.extract.internal.TableInformationImpl.getColumn(TableInformationImpl.java:68)
       at org.hibernate.mapping.Table.sqlAlterStrings(Table.java:456)
       at org.hibernate.tool.schema.internal.SchemaMigratorImpl.migrateTable(SchemaMigratorImpl.java:254)
       at org.hibernate.tool.schema.internal.SchemaMigratorImpl.doMigrationToTargets(SchemaMigratorImpl.java:170)
       at org.hibernate.tool.schema.internal.SchemaMigratorImpl.doMigration(SchemaMigratorImpl.java:60)
       at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate.execute(SchemaUpdate.java:133)
       at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate.execute(SchemaUpdate.java:101)
       at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:470)
       at org.hibernate.boot.internal.SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.build(SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.java:444)
       at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:708)
       at app.sqlite.eDocumentsDBConnector.connect(eDocumentsDBConnector.java:69)