We have a Hibernate Tools automated job running each night to pick up entity changes to our database structure. We also run hbm2cfgxml to pick up new entities to add to cfg. However we can't run hbm2cfgxml as an automated task because Hibernate Tools can't run under jndi and our app runs under jndi. That means the hibernate.properties file used for the tool and the expected hibernate.cfg.xml for the actual app have different connection settings.

This seems like it should be an easy problem to solve. We need to add customize the properties outputted fromhbm2cfgxml, and the HibernateConfigurationExporter has a customProperties field. However that customProperties field doesn't seem to be accessible from our ant job(the ant job is called from maven).

Does anyone have a suggestion for how to customize the generated hibernate.cfg.xml from Hibernate Tools?

Perhaps there can be a different way of looking at the problem.

I have a hibernate.properties file with the connection information for my server. That isn't the connection information I want to use for the cfg.

Can I have the intended connection information for the cfg be present in the hibernate.properties file, but with different connection information used by the system?

I was trying to use ReverseEngineeringRuntimeInfo, which seemed to work somewhat but somewhere in the system, it would try to instantiate the jndi I had put in the properties file, though I had only intended it for the cfg.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!