Hi,

I am currently using a top down approach for development with the following steps.

1. Design the model using UML diagrams

2. a. Manually create the POJOs.
b. Insert the hibernate annotations
c. Generate the schemal using the schema generation tool.


Step 1 and 2 are disconnected and I need to manually ensure that they are in sync. I would like to maintain a single artifact (as compared to UML + pojo with annotations) and I would like to automate the process of POJO generation with annotations, followed by schema generation.

I guess I need a tool which creates UML diagrams in which I can incorporate the annotations so that each time the POJOs are generated they are annotated.

q1>Is there any way I could achieve this? I did have a look at androMDA, but at this point I do not know how I could use it to achieve my goal.

q2>I believe this feature would be useful in development. Are they any plans to introduce such a feature as part of Hibernate Tools?

Thank you,

Rishi

any tool that can create a hbm.xml from UML should be usable in this context since we can generate annotations from them.

and afaik andromeda generates hbm.xml

You want an xmi2java (with hibernate markup).
AndroMDA could have a cartridge to do this for you. If not it could be built for it.

xmi2java = Andromeda Hibernate cartride + hbmj2ava

What would be the recommended steps for development given that I do not have access to the required cartiridge for xmi2java with hibernate markup?

thanks.

doiwnload andromeda and learn how to use their hibernate integration to generate hbm.xml and then use hbm2java from hibernatetools to generate your annotated classes.

If you get this pipeline working (and should be fine) get back to us. It would be interesting to see how it works out. It is kinda cool how everything is plugin together now.