Hello,

I am planning to implement Hibernate based persistence model for my existing MySQL schema.

While talking to a friend today, I came to know about reverse engineering tools that will reduce the amount of work required to complete Hibernate implementation.

Can someone please explain in three or four points -
- what tools do I need to purchase
- once I'll have the tools, what are the major steps in the impl. process
- how much time does it take to complete this process for a relatively small database with fairly non-complex relationships.

Thanks,
Carla

You can go for myeclipse6.0..http://www.myeclipseide.com/
It's very easy to generate code for hibernate from mysql schema.It creates abstract classes,TO,hbm.xml,hibernate-cfg.xml and even session factory..It's a good tool.You can go for it.You can download the trial version and see if that fulfill your needs...

You shouldn't need to purchase any tools, there's a ton of really well made free stuff out there to provide you with the tools you need.

As sabyasachi.roy mentioned using some sort of IDE is probaby your best bet. NetBeans and Eclipse are very popular tools that can manage an entire project. They have plug ins that will generate a number of hibernate files. I've never used myeclipse but it also looks like a useful tool.

Once you have the tools, implementing it really depends on what you want to accomplish. Hibernate is a pretty flexible persistence service, I guess its most commonly used in web apps.

Time really depends on your comfort and learning curve. Its not hard, once familiar with hibernate to put together the required files in a day or two for a small simple database. But learning the tool will take significantly more time.

Cheers