I just ran into a case where middlegen singularized this table name ref_publication_series. It changed it to RefPublicationSery. I am sorry but this is wrong. I would really like to see an option to allow us to tell middlegen -not- to singularize at all. I would rather look at (harmless) plural objects like "Persons" than deal with the one offs. Just my 2 cents.

Tim

This option can be switched off. The code that makes the conversion can be replaced with your own implementation.

Using the velocity templates you mentioned in another chain?

Can you elaborate on this at all? Are you referring to the singular and plural properties that one can set in the <table> section of hbm.xml files? Or is there something I missed?

If it is the tweaking of hbm.xml files then I don't think this is an option for us since we are still regenerating these often, and may be doing so for much of the project.

We REALLY want to be able to turn off this singularization feature... I saw some recent arguments for it regarding java beans naming conventions... We aren't using beans or j2ee (we're building a stand-alone app), and I appreciate using a naming convention, but this renaming of every table and column name (see my other post yesterday please) is a real hindrance.

Thanks

You can add a substitute module that controls the name conversions through the Ant script.