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Ideally, with looking at hibernate I have been looking(learning) through the concept of creating new objects, new databases from hibernate. What is your take on working with exisiting data not created in hibernate, but using the nice object system that hibernate provides. Are there articles on this, or is this too easy a question. Is there a sql2hbm tool? I guess since the system is already built and their is existing data, things ideally should be easier. I think I am just concerned that the existing database wont place nice with hibernate.