HI
Is it possible for hibernate itself to generate the classname.hbml.xml file.

Suppose i have only the class implementation i.e pojo as follows

class Item
{

String item_name;
long id;
String category;

//and all the getter and setter methods
}

Now i do not create the Item.hbm.xml file..can hibernate create on its own

Thanks,
AKshay

I believe hibernate has its own tool to reverse engineer the database. Check it out in the hibernate website.

There are plugins available which let you generate not only the hbm files,
but also the pojo classes with the setters and getters.

eg: Exadel, myEclipse.

Rate if you find this useful!

and of course our own (which is used in both myeclipse and exadel).

see tools.hibernate.org

I actually want to add a "eclipse java model" to "hbm" exporter to the plugins, but it is not a high priority at the moment. Contributions/patched are though very much accepted.