I have defined a property and attribute node in a hbm.xml file like this:
<property column="name" length="20" name="Name" not-null="true" type="string">
<meta attribute="field-description">
@hibernate.property
caption ="User's Name"
</meta>
</property>

and how can i get the meta attribute's value(eg. the value of capation) in hibernate?

I hava already tried this
Configuration cfg = null;
SessionFactory sf = null;

cfg = new Configuration().configure();
sf = cfg.buildSessionFactory();

ClassMetadata metadata = sf.getClassMetadata(Customer.class);
Table t = cfg.getClassMapping(Customer.class).getTable();
Column column = t.getColumn(1);
System.out.println(column.getName());
System.out.println(column.getAlias());
System.out.println(column.isNullable());
System.out.println(column.getLength());
System.out.println(column.getType().getName());
but can not get the value of meta attribute "caption" .

Any help is appreciated!

property.getMetaAttributes()

thanks very muck!