Hello,

I am doing an internship and I have to develop an application that will work with most RDBMS supported by Hibernate.

Hence, it is more than likely than I am going to use Hibernate.

However, as my future application will be composed of one "Main Module" and several optional modules (that will be developped later), I will have to change the database schema.

I am a little bit concerned about it. I have read things about "UpdateSchema" that is said to be "immature" and the JDBC driver has to support "JDBC metadata ".

My questions are :

1- How to know if is the JDBC driver supports "JDBC metadata " ?

2- Are there such JDBC driver for all RDMBS supported by Hibernate ?

3- How do you guys do to update your schema ? Do you use SchemaUpdate or is there another way?

I would appreciate it to get any advice ...

Thanks a lot for your answers
Sylvain