Hello
I am newbie, i would like to genereate arraylist instead of hashset by hibernate tools in STS. I have found many topics...but without any good result:

now i have this in my reveng.xml file:



how can i easy to define genereate arraylists insteads hashsets?
thanks

You Don't Want That (TM).

The only thing that the ArrayList does that a HashSet doesn't is that it imposes an ordering.
The problem is, you can't specify the order. Hibernate will fill the collection in whatever order it sees fit - it could be the order that the database delivers the rows, possibly modified by batching, current cache contents, or the phase of the moon.
You might get a useful ordering, or you might not, or any ordering that you observe might change as soon as you go from testing to production. You're essentially in the country of Undefined Behaviour.

What you can do is to use a Criteria or HQL query and specify the order there.
If the rows are already in Hibernate's cache, it should even avoid hitting the database.

Is there an easy way to do it anyway?

thx in advance

I doubt there is an easy way to do anything with Hibernate tools anymore.
Unless you're using JBoss Tools, that is - these seem to have migrated to Dali since at least 4.1.

Hibernate Tools 3.6 was horrible. It gave us 90% of what we needed in 10% of the time, but required 900% to get to 95% and utterly failed on the last 5%.
In the end, we cut our losses and have been using Dali, let it generate skeletons for the entity classes, then adapt these to what we need. It's far from ideal but at least it has been working, and we do not do THAT much of reverse engineering anyway.