I'm a bit of a newbie, I guess - just having started playing with this today. I've got everything up and running and working but am trying to generate my POJOs. When I do that whether I use the VelocityRenderer or BasicRenderer I only get the IDs for the hbm.xml files generated. I can't see what's going on and have searched the forums here and abroad. Can anyone help an ignorant soul (who has done quite a bit of searching on this issue and can't find any solution)?

I'm using the latest Hibernate and Hibernate-tools - downloaded today.

Here's a couple of example hbm.xml files and the output of their generation using VelocityRenderer:

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Company.hbm.xml
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Sat Apr 17 01:29:05 bmorriso@jolt ~/source/mb/hibernate $ cat Company.hbm.xml Emp.hbm.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping
PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>

<class name="net.fivedown.mb.bom.Company" table="COMPANY">
<id name="id" type="long" unsaved-value="null" >
<column name="COMPANY_ID" sql-type="numeric" not-null="true"/>
<generator class="sequence">
<param name="sequence">company_id_seq</param>
</generator>
</id>

<property name="name">
<column name="NAME" sql-type="varchar(50)" not-null="true"/>
</property>
</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

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Emp.hbm.xml
=====

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping
PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>

<class name="net.fivedown.mb.bom.Emp" table="EMP">
<id name="id" type="string" unsaved-value="null" >
<column name="EMP_ID" sql-type="char(32)" not-null="true"/>
<generator class="uuid.hex"/>
</id>

<property name="name">
<column name="NAME" sql-type="varchar(50)" not-null="true"/>
</property>
</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

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OUTPUT:
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/**
* POJO for Company
* @author hbm2java
*/
public class Company implements java.io.Serializable {

// Fields
private java.lang.Long id;

// Constructors


/** full constructor */
public Company() {
}


public java.lang.Long getId() {
return this.id;
}

public void setId(java.lang.Long id) {
this.id = id;
}


}


/**
* POJO for Emp
* @author hbm2java
*/
public class Emp implements java.io.Serializable {

// Fields
private java.lang.String id;

// Constructors


/** full constructor */
public Emp() {
}


public java.lang.String getId() {
return this.id;
}

public void setId(java.lang.String id) {
this.id = id;
}


}

have you checked the log output from hb2mjava ?

could it be it tells you that it cannot generate a property for you because you have not specified a type for a property ?

Because that you need to do!

Thx Max - It was a bit late and I'd run it quietly. Sorry - that was a stupid one...

benster