Being new to hibernate, and having the chance to start a new project with the latest hibernate, I'd like to start using a good pattern.

I am using annotations on entity classes. I'd like to programatically create the table that match an annotated class. I saw SchemaExport but this appears to accept an xml file as input. Can I convert the annotated class to XML? Or should I maintain in sync each annotated class with a matching XML file?

Can anyone point me to a good process for creating tables programatically in hibernate? I search all over the place but I do not find a clear answer to this.

Thanks,

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Michel

point your browser to the hibernate tools =) http://www.hibernate.org/255.html

You can use ant, or an eclipse plugin to go in either direction you want. from pojos to xml files to db table creation, or the other way around, generating the xml files and the pojos from the db schema