Hi all,
I want to make reverse engineering from a big database (mysql). I had downloading Hibernate tools 3.2.0 beta 9a, installing, using, ... all is ok, i see my data schema in the wizard.
The problem is when i want to generate hbm.xml files thanks to configurations. In the wizard, i have defined a configuration for generating them (*.hbm.xml) and a reveng.xml file in which i have specified type mapping. It runs very good when i don't use the reveng.xml file in the configuration. When i want to use it (i have select org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.ReverseEngineeringStrategyUtil as reveng. strategy), i have this error :



Does anyone help me ?

your class and constructor of reveng class needs to be public

ok, but org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.ReverseEngineeringStrategyUtil is not one of my own classes. It belongs to hibernate-tools-3.2.0.beta9a.jar and i have no access to its source code. Moreover, it's the wizard which propose to me this strategy. It's amazing that no runs directly ...

it only suggest that if you browse for it because it matches the name *ReverseEngineering* - unfortunatly I haven't figured out how to make the type chooser in eclipse only show subclasses of a specific type.

If you don't have a class to use for it don't fill it out.

ok, so i want to use my reveng.xml file, i have to create my own strategy. This class will have to have public constructor and modifiers ...

no, you don't need a custom class for using a reveng.xml.

A custom class is only needed if you want to do something programmatically instead of declaring it explicilty in the reveng.xml

ok, it runs fine with DelegatingReverseEngineeringStrategy, the reveng.xml is used this time.
Thanks max

just don't put anything in the reveng strategy class field...

i have another problem with the wizard, on the same basis as the precedent :
now i want to use custom template (i. e. dao generation).
I paste the source code of daohome.ftl provided in hibernate-tools-3.2.0.beta9a.jar in a file with the same name in my project under a directory called template (i have just changed one thing : instead of public class ${declarationName}Home, i put public class ${declarationName}Dao.
In the configuration wizard, i check "use custom templates" and specify the path of my templates directory with the same configuration like before (reveng.xml + org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.DelegatingReverseEngineeringStrategy).

But, in fact the generator doesn't use my custom template when i check the generation result ...

did you put it in a directory named dao like where you copied it from ?

That's it, one more time thanks a lot max ...