There's a JIRA entry asking for an easy means to get from a configuration node (in the Hibernate Configuration view in the Console) to the associated properties, mapping, and configuration files. I see two straightforward ways to do this: via a menu item, as suggested in the JIRA entry, or via nested subnodes in parallel with the existing one for Session Factory, Database, etc.

Regarding menu items, this could be a popup menu, or via entries in the existing top-level Navigate menu, or both.

yes?

There's some implicit questions there -- which method is prefererable from a UI design standpoint.

I would probably prefer having a context menu that works on any kind of node below a Console Configuration node that would get me there.

Something like a submenu with dynamically generated content depending on the node.

So e.g. on a "Console Configuration" node (or children) with both hibernate.properties and hibernate.cfg.xml i would have:



with only a hibernate.cfg.xml:



and the "advanced" next step is to have the following on a entity node:


Where "Find entity mapping" will locate it based on heuristics (since we actually don't know where it is coming from at the moment - we should add that in the future).
The heuristics will be to assume that the file is in the source path under the <package.name>.<fullclassname>.hbm.xml

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