Hi All,
My company is strongly considering scrapping their existing DAO-based JDBC persistence "framework" and implementing Hibernate. We currently have over 300 persistent classes and of course a corresponding database. This is a production application already.

I am partial to the XDoclet hibernate plug-in, but it would be a bit of a pain to write XDoclet tags for all these classes. Is there a tool that would help with this process? Ideally, something that has some awareness of both our domain model and corresponding database model and would help filling in the gaps so that we could use XDoclet without doing all that hand tagging.

I have read the tool wiki's but there doesn't seem to be anything that fits this niche. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks!!!
Niels

best guess i can think of is middlegen which works very well if the database schema is rich (eg. contains the constraints)

I'm with Max on this :-) Middlegen will be able to create the HBMs with XDoclet markup then hbm2java will give you the Java POJOs with the XDoclet tags intact. The bulk of the work done in an hour or so.