Hi,

I'm fairly new to hibernate but after some trial time I'm now generating the hibernate mapping files with XDoclet and let SchemaExport translating them to a DDL-file.
My question: Is is possible to define initial objects which will lead to insert-statements initializing the DB-tables with start-off records?

Thanks for your help!

Not with builtin functionality. It should be fairly easy however to write a little program which just creates a Hibernate instance, and inserts your objects. Just integrate it into your build/install process.

I'm not certain exactly what you are asking for. Is this a usecase for the replicate() method?

A simple usecase is an user object (-> user table) to manage the accounts for my system.
I'd like to have some predefined, initial accounts (e.g. administrator, guest, ...) which will be written to the database during installation / configuration.

A small program doing this is fine with me.

If there is no Hibernate build in feature at the moment: wouldn't it be a nice idea for a future release?

Don't think so. You can just as easily insert that yourself using hibernate or execute an SQL script. How should Hibernate make that easier?

There are tools around that specialise in this sort of thing. I have tended to use dbUnit for prepopulating a database with values during the testing phases. See [url]dbunit.sf.net[/url].