Hello,

all business objects are mapped with hibernate of course. Is there a way to export them to a file, for example xml, when objects are achieved by a query? Or any other idea for an import / export function of application data near to object structure? (no sql dumps).

Thanks in advance

Marcus

Well, you could try using Hibernate's DOM4J entity mode (see hibernate reference manual), and writing the retrieved objects out however you desire, or you could use some third-party library such as XStream To convert the Pojo's to XML.

I'm sure others have different ways of doing this.

Thanks you. Had XStream in mind. I will look for the Dom4J Entity Mode. Another thing I found is HyperJAXB. If anyone of it will work for it, I tell you.

Each object of the domain model should be Serializable ... ;)

I decided to use the Dom4J Model, sounds promising. Just wonder how i can specifiy if an HQL query returns a DOM or Objects.

sorry... ignore this post. scrolled over it. *shamed*