Hi,

I want Hibernate to create the tables in the database, if they dont already exist.

I tried setting the hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto property to create, but this creates a new table everytime I run the program, and thus deletes any existing data. Instead, I want to create the tables only if they dont exist and use the existing ones if they already exist, since I would want to preserve the data across various invocations of my application.

Please help!

Thanks in advance
-Abhishek

Try "update" instead of "create", but note that some indices are not created with the "update" value.

Try "update" instead of "create", but note that some indices are not created with the "update" value.