I intend to parse the hbms to represent them in another intermediate format for an internal use. Though I have made use of most of the excellent Hibernate Code generation code, I was unable to find how to get a list of mappings in order of decreasing reference. More precisely, I intend to get a ordered list of mappings such that a foreign class definition always come ahead in the list. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
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Meg

This is not possible, classes may have cross references.

eeks.. u are right. And then I went through the schema generation code and realized constraints are created after the table schema is generated. That was a good hint. Thanks for ur prompt reply.

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Meg