I have used Middlegen to create .hbm.xml files for the tables in my existing db schema. Using hbm2java I was able to generate .java files from each .hbm.xml file. I wanted that to be a one time thing where I can take these .java files and fine tune them by hand. I'd like to be able to run the hibernate xdoclet task through these Java files to generate new .hbm.xml files. Is there a way to get hbm2java to write the xdoclet tags into the .java files as they're created?
In summary, I wanted this to be a one time thing:

schema --Middlegen--> .hbm.xml files --hbm2java--> .java files

At this point I would like the generated .java files to contain the xdoclet tags necessary to generate .hbm.xml files.
Now I'd like to hand tune the .java files and from now on build this way:

.java files --xdoclet--> .hbm.xml files

Thank you,
-M@

hbm2java does not produce XDoclet tags. Having said that you can ask Middlegen to generate them and pass them on to hbm2java to include in the final generated POJO. Refer to the Middlegen wiki page on the hibernate site.

Thanks David, I got it working shortly after I sent my first post. I was using the Middlegen-Hibernate package from

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hibe ... &sort=desc

and in its build.xml there was a section that mentioned added xdoclet tags to the POJO classes that hbm2java generates.