Hello there,

I'm new on Hibernate and am currently investigating the feasibility of moving the persistence layer of our platform from a in-house solution and a Hibernate one. This library is used by many Java multi-threaded modules on our platform and it's bootstrapped upon each module start-up.

We used to have EJBs but for performance reasons we've decided to move back to standard Client (Java) Server (Oracle) architecture (back in 2002 Hibernate was not so popular back then) for persistence.

This in-house framework is rather heavy and expensive to maintain and to evolve : thus our investigation today.

I have installed the hibernate 3.1 and its example and its up and running fine on our Oracle back end.

Questions :
Q1 : when we define an object mapping on an Oracle table, is this table automatically rebuilt/created at Configuration.buildSessionFactory() time ?
(I'm sure no hence the other question .... )

Q2 : How can we configure Hibernate so that the table is not created at this time ? Is there any way to have the script generated before hand so that our DBA can run them once for all.

I could not find any documentation describing this table process/creation.

Many thanks in advance for your help !

No - Hibernate does not generate the tables automatically.



See here: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... etguide-s1