Hello,
I posted earlier that I was having some issues with creating a .class file from a xml mapping.

I am very new, but this is an area I would like to get up and running with, and the reason I am looking into Hibernate.

If I have a hbm.xml file like so:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 2.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>

<class name="com.oreilly.hh.Track" table="TRACK">
<meta attribute="class-description">
Represents a single playable track in the music database.
@author Jim Elliott (with help from Hibernate)
</meta>

<id name="id" type="int" column="TRACK_ID">
<meta attribute="scope-set">protected</meta>
<generator class="native"/>
</id>

<property name="title" type="string" not-null="true"/>

<property name="filePath" type="string" not-null="true"/>

<property name="playTime" type="time">
<meta attribute="field-description">Playing time</meta>
</property>

<property name="added" type="date">
<meta attribute="field-description">When the track was created</meta>
</property>

<property name="volume" type="short" not-null="true">
<meta attribute="field-description">How loud to play the track</meta>
</property>

</class>
</hibernate-mapping>


What is the procedure to create a class file from this?

Thanks,

Have you tried hbm2java?

It is part of the hibernate extensions (at least for Hibernate 2.1.*). Download at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hibernate/hibernate-extensions-2.1.3.zip

Erik