I've just uploaded part 2 of my hibernate tutorial series. This installment is an extension of part one based on some requests I've recieved from part 1. Specifically, this tutorial focuses on modifying file generated by the Hibernate/Middlegen plugin to handle inheritance and many-to-many associations correctly. As always I'd love to recieve some feedback.

Cheers,
Tyler Pitchford

Whoops, I forgot the link.

http://www.warfrog.com/hibernatetutorial2/

Cheers,
Tyler

Great to have more tutorials but I have recieved any requests for enhancements or bugs (and patches) for issues in the Many-to-many hbm generation. It is being actively worked on and the feedback helps me (and the Middlegen/Hibernate community).

Please use JIRA and Send to david@hibernate.org.

I have now read the tutorial. I do like the approach and information in general. I would like you to consider trying a few things and then update the tutorial as approrpriate.

1) I have also changed the class name algorithm recently which is in CVS. This improves the defaults. Its still not perfect but it can be further improved. In addition, tables names, Singular and Plural, can be set using the table tag. I would suggest trying it out see if this approach to table naming can be improved. Eg,



2) Many-to-many (and in this case) the better option is to use Middlegen's ability to create (and display in the GUI) Many-to-many relationships directly. You set this up in the Ant script similar to above.




You can combine these methods to get the result you were trying to illustrate.

Thanks for your efforts, I have started a detailed tutorial but getting the time to finsihed has been a challenge. Glad you have (started) the process. Hope this information helps you and others that are reading this post (and your tutorial [possibly updated]).

-- David.

David,

Thank you for the feedback, I'll add it to my tutorial. I'll do my best to update it tomorrow, but it's likely to take a week or so. I knew you could specify certain information using the ant task, but I didn't know the format so that's a great help I'll probably include both the information on how to modify it by hand and how to use the ant task commands if you don't mind.

Cheers,
Tyler

No problem with having both. I look forward to reading the update.