Last week I posted a question on the old forum regarding how to easily load all of the Hibernate configuration files that XDoclet can generate. Basically, my question was, "If you are dynamically generating all of the *.hbm.xml files, what is an easy way to slurp all these files in to configure you SessionFactory?"

Well...I discovered the lastest CVS of XDoclet 1.2 has a Ant subtask for this very purpose: factoryclass. Basically, it generates a class that "knows" about all of the generated configuration files and loads them for you. All you have to do is add this subtask to your hibernatedoclet task like so:

[code]<factoryclass factoryclass="foo.bar.SessionFactoryFactory"
driver_class="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
<!-- other properies go here -->
/>[/code]

Then, to get your SessionFactory, all you have to do is:

[code]SessionFactory factory = SessionFactoryFactory.getSessionFactory();[/code]

You will never have to touch this again, no matter what changes you make to your persistable classes. I hope this is of some use to some people.

Ryan

if using SessionFactoryFactory, will hibernate.properties still be adhered to? I haven't tried it yet, but I'm confused by what config info must be added to SessionFactoryFactory generation.

I would like to (a) use hibernate.properties for general config and (b) use SessionFactoryFactory to automagically load all my hibernate classes.

Would this work? I'll try it out when I get a chance.
t

You can actually configure this information both places - in the Ant subtask or a hibernate.properties file. It doesn't look like the subtask supports all of the properties (yet?).

I actually still keep the property information in a seperate file, like you described. Here is a snippet of what that would look like:



Basically, you get a hanlde to the Factory's properties, and then load your properties from the file. There may be a more elegant way, but this works for me.

HTH.

Ryan