Hello!

I have got a general question concerning Hibernate:

I have got annotated entity classes represeting a database schema. Now I would like to use these entity classes in order to communicate with a database via Hibernate from OUTSIDE an application container. Is this possible? If yes, please let me know how.

The reason behind is that the project I am working on is large and redeploying to jboss takes quite some time. Therefore, I would like to develop a part of the project OUTSIDE of the container, but still using the same entity classes so that I can easily integrate my work later on.

Thanks in advance,
Markus

Of course it is possible. I'm using hibernate in a standalone swing app and it works like hell :)

You only need to add hibernate.jar and all the dependencies to the classpath and you're done.

The hibernate tutorial, indeed, does not use an application server:

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... orial.html