I would like to change the codegen to use the same layout as I am used to, eg that output by the 'hibernate synchronizer' plugin for eclipse.

I've used freemarker before, so making my own templates shouldnt be a problem, but what else do I need to do?

a java class implement a custom codegen strategy?

Nick

ps; the system I am used to uses
project/data/Domain_Objects.java
project/data/DAO/DomainObjectDao.java
project/data/DAO/iface/DomainObjectDao.java
project/data/base/BaseDomainObject.java
project/data/base/BaseDomainObjectDao.java

that is just about changing the dao templates.

I would recommend using <hbmtemplate> to generate the various parts.

Look at the docs plus the existing templates to see how things are done.

Thank you Max,

Could you suggest a way of generating two different files per entity?
I cant quite see how that should work.

Is there a more elegant method than using ant to run the whole thing twice?

eh you can have multiple exporters per run....

I think I'm getting pretty deep into "palm => forehead" territory here...

I have an error:

Loaded from /home/nick/repos/a/src/WEB-INF/lib/freemarker.jar freemarker/cache/TemplateCache$TemplateKey.class
Class freemarker.cache.TemplateCache$TemplateKey loaded from ant loader (parentFirst)
Couldn't load Resource home/nick/repos/a/hibernate-tools/templates/hbm2java/BaseDomainObject_en_NZ.ftl
Couldn't load Resource home/nick/repos/a/hibernate-tools/templates/hbm2java/BaseDomainObject_en.ftl
Couldn't load Resource home/nick/repos/a/hibernate-tools/templates/hbm2java/BaseDomainObject.ftl
[hibernatetool] An exception occurred while running exporter #2:generic exportertemplate: /home/nick/repos/a/hibernate-tools/templates/hbm2java/BaseDomainObject.ftl
[hibernatetool] To get the full stack trace run ant with -verbose
[hibernatetool] org.hibernate.tool.hbm2x.ExporterException: Error while processing template /home/nick/repos/a/hibernate-tools/templates/hbm2java/BaseDomainObject.ftl
[hibernatetool] java.io.FileNotFoundException: Template /home/nick/repos/a/hibernate-tools/templates/hbm2java/BaseDomainObject.ftl not found.
Class java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError loaded from parent loader (parentFirst)

the relevant part of the ant build.xml:

<configuration configurationfile="${basedir}/../src/WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.cfg.xml"/>
<hbmtemplate
filepattern="${package-name}/base/base${class-name}.java"
template="${basedir}/templates/hbm2java/BaseDomainObject.ftl"/>

and some console output:

nick@nick-desktop:~/repos/a/hibernate-tools$ ls -l /home/nick/repos/a/hibernate-tools/templates/hbm2java/BaseDomainObject.ftl
-rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 112 2008-01-11 14:11 /home/nick/repos/a/hibernate-tools/templates/hbm2java/BaseDomainObject.ftl

Any ideas?

Never mind - fount it

templatepath=...