Hi all,

I'm using hibernate middlegen plugin for my DAOs generation.
I would like to know if it's possible to cutomise it like below:

1) all DAO will extends a given class
2) generate only methods signature (without codes) we can give.

any help would be greetly appreciated.

Meissa

The Ant task for DAO generation has various argument to allow customised generation. In many cases this will not cover user's requires (since they can vary so much) so you can edit the velocity script to create what ever form of code you find necessary.

unfortunately I've never used velocity framework. I've been searching for a velocity script in vain.
Could you give me just a little example or point me out an url about hibernate DAO customisation throughout velocity.

Meissa

The velocity script is found in the Middlegen-hibernate plugin jar.
Obviously, you could get the source as an alternative.
Unzip the jar for the hibernate plugin and look for the *.vm of which the DAO generator will be obvious. Compare your output with the script you will see it is fairly simple to follow how the code is generated from the template.
Further velocity specific information can be found on its own web site.

Plssssssssssssss can u telll how DAO classes are generating by using Hibernate-middlegen. I can able to generate POJO classes not DAOs.

How i need to genertate those.. I am using hbm2java target like this

<!-- =================================================================== -->
<!-- Run hbm2java depends="middlegen" -->
<!-- =================================================================== -->
<taskdef
name="hbm2java"
classname="net.sf.hibernate.tool.hbm2java.Hbm2JavaTask"
classpathref="lib.class.path"
/>
<target name="hbm2java" description="Generate .java from .hbm files.">

<hbm2java output="pojos">
<fileset dir="${build.gen-src.dir}">
<include name="**/*.hbm.xml"/>
</fileset>
</hbm2java>
</target>


Pleaseeeeeeee send thiss,
Thanks,
Mahesh

Firstly, hbm2java and Middlegen are two different beasts (programs).

Answers
1) Middlgen has a option that is set in the Ant task to get the DAOs to be generated.

2) hbm2java - see documentation
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/tools/reference/en/html/ant.html#d0e1193

is one of a number of exporters - choose the exporters to do what you require. See section 3.4.2 for a list of exporters - DAO is one of them.