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Hi all,

I searched the forums, my hibernate books, googled and didn't turn up much. Please just link me somewhere if I'm asking something obvious.

I'm taking over the hibernate part of a new app. The current DB is _not_ production , and the only current hibernate code was auto-generated but was never used. The person who created the DB has given me the green light to basically try and re-create the DB using an Object first, hbm.xml approach. I've always worked with Hibernate starting with the objects and xml files first.

I'd like to justify the extra work before blindly coding. Can anyone explain why it would be better to start new since we have a choice, rather than continue with a reverse engineered config ?

Thanks!
Robert

You can start from scratch so approach it the way you feel most comfortable with.
Personnally, I tend to start with the POJOs (Xdoclet/Annotations) though for small projects, reverse engineering followed by code generation works well.

a reverse engineered config always need (more or less) tuning, so no matter what choice you take you need to go through the mapping and evaluate if the reverse engineered result is what you actually want.

Then if you have some good hbm.xml's auto-generating the java code is fine (since they would be exactly as what the hbm.xml's are describing)

And no matter what direction you take (topdown, bottomup, middleout) always consider what you want to represent in the objects world AND what you want to represent in the db world...both have merit.