Hi :
I am now has some JavaFiles without annotation,I want save Instance of them into DB using hibernate,But I don't know how to generate Hibernate mapping files from java files without annotation（xdoclet tags）
The JavaFiles is upload by another mode,so i can't expect what they shoud be. and i have no table in my DB yet.
I want do things as follow:
1、generate mapping files from Java class files.???
2、create tables automatically
3、 save the instance of these classes into DB.

and I am now trapped by step 1.please help.
Thanks

You are not clear that you can't modify the model class or not?

If not, then I don't think it's possible besides create manually or reverse engineer from the database, but you don't have database yet!

If yes, then can you use xdoclet instead of annotation (which is different btw)?

--Frank

the classes is uploaded by another mode,and I load them using classloader.
so,the classes is dynamic.
I want to generate @annotation or generate mapping files dynamicly to saving them by hibernate.
The question is both @annotation and mapping files is not exist!
how can i generate one of them dynamicly?

I have to say you have an unique and weird setup here :) If the db exists, you can reverse engineer to generate the mapping files assuming they're corresponded to the classes uploaded, however, it does NOT reserve all schematics (relationships, constraints, etc.). Otherwise, I'm sorry I don't know any other way. (This is ad-hoc but you can try to use reflection on the domain model classes and generate the mapping files, but I would not go there if I were you!)

thanks for your reply again.
I don't know what kind of java files would be uploaded .
and so I can't define the table beforehand.

as I know,HyperJAXB can parse schema to java files and add hibernate annotation to the java files.
so I guess there must be ways parse normal javabean files and add annotation to themself.(I can't use hyperjaxb because i have use jax-ws2.1)
I won't like to use reflection on the domain model classes and generate the mapping files as you said. because it must be complex.
Is there any framework or tools will help??