Hi,
I am using Hibernate3 Tools plugin for Eclipse. The problem is that so far
I haven't been able to make XML editor in Eclipse to do semantic
auto-completion for class names and property/field names
(the tag completion is working fine, though), so I came here for help.

I followed the setup instruction found in http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/tools/.
Basically, I downloaded Eclipse and JBoss-IDE with the versions indicated,
and also the Hibernate3 Tools.

I unzipped them as instructed and start running Eclipse. Then, after creating
a Java project, I created one Java class (e.g., User.java) in some
arbitrary package. Some private vars and their setters/getters were
also created at this point.

Then, is there any particular way of creating User.hbm.xml in Eclipse?
I couldn't find any choice for a "Hibernate Mapping File" in New wizard.
(in the Hibernate folder of the wizard, I saw only
"Console Configuration", "Hibernate Artifact Generation" and
"Hibernate Configuration File")
So I did it the "normal" way, which is creating a simple "File"
with the name User.hbm.xml.

Then, I started typing the XML preamble as follows:


So far, in this step, the XML editor is able to complete the tags for me,
but it still doesn't do semantic completion. Basically,
it shows me what tag I can use and what property can be specified for the tag.
But it doesn't do any completion when I tried to type package name,
class name, or field name.

Is there any step I was missing? I just started using Eclipse yesterday,
so I might have done something really stupid. But since everything
looks ok, I don't know what went wrong.

Thanks

Hi,

did you find the solution? I´m having the same problem.

I´m using eclipse 3.1M4 and JBossIDE-1.4.1-jre1.5. I followed the same steps (installed eclipse, installed JBoss, placed the hibernate tools plugin at the eclipse plugin directory).

When I right click at the file.hbm.xml it shows that it is edited using "XML editor (JBoss-IDE)". Should apear a "hibernate mapping editor" or something like it there?

Thanks

Pedro - Brazil

you need to setup the hibernate mapping editor as an editor for .xml files (eclipse does not support extensions with a dot thus you cant register .hbm.xml as an extension)