I have this target in my build.xml :

<target name="init-db">
<taskdef name="schemaexport" classname="org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExportTask" classpathref="project.class.path" />
<schemaexport config="../${build.hibernate.dir}/hibernate.cfg.xml" delimiter=";" drop="false" output="schema.sql" quiet="true" text="true">
<fileset dir="${build.hibernate.dir}">
<exclude name="**/*.hbm.xml" />
</fileset>
</schemaexport>
</echo>
</target>

after updating from hibernate 2 to hibernate 3 this task is very slow.
Also when I deploy on Tomcat the start is very slow.

Can I do something to make it faster ?

Probably is because you have mapping files (hbm) which still refer to Hibernate 2.0 DTDs.

Change the DTD reference to



in your hbm.xml files.


Then DDL schema generation and Tomcat startup will get back their normal speed.


Regards,

Giulio