Full stack trace of any exception that occurs:

!ENTRY org.hibernate.eclipse.console 4 4 2005-07-30 21:35:36.187
!MESSAGE Error under artifact generation
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hibernate.mapping.ForeignKey.alignColumns(ForeignKey.java:73)
at org.hibernate.mapping.ForeignKey.setReferencedTable(ForeignKey.java:51)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCBinder.processForeignKeys(JDBCBinder.java:1087)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCBinder.readDatabaseSchema(JDBCBinder.java:136)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCBinder.readFromDatabase(JDBCBinder.java:91)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCMetaDataConfiguration.readFromJDBC(JDBCMetaDataConfiguration.java:37)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard$3.execute(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:237)
at org.hibernate.console.ConsoleConfiguration.execute(ConsoleConfiguration.java:77)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.buildConfiguration(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:234)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.doFinish(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:164)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.access$0(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:132)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard$1.run(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:98)
at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:113)
!SUBENTRY 1 org.hibernate.eclipse.console 4 4 2005-07-30 21:35:36.187
!MESSAGE <No message>
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hibernate.mapping.ForeignKey.alignColumns(ForeignKey.java:73)
at org.hibernate.mapping.ForeignKey.setReferencedTable(ForeignKey.java:51)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCBinder.processForeignKeys(JDBCBinder.java:1087)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCBinder.readDatabaseSchema(JDBCBinder.java:136)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCBinder.readFromDatabase(JDBCBinder.java:91)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCMetaDataConfiguration.readFromJDBC(JDBCMetaDataConfiguration.java:37)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard$3.execute(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:237)
at org.hibernate.console.ConsoleConfiguration.execute(ConsoleConfiguration.java:77)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.buildConfiguration(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:234)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.doFinish(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:164)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.access$0(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:132)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard$1.run(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:98)
at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:113)
!SUBENTRY 2 org.hibernate.eclipse.console 4 150 2005-07-30 21:35:36.187
!MESSAGE <no message>
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.hibernate.mapping.ForeignKey.alignColumns(ForeignKey.java:73)
at org.hibernate.mapping.ForeignKey.setReferencedTable(ForeignKey.java:51)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCBinder.processForeignKeys(JDBCBinder.java:1087)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCBinder.readDatabaseSchema(JDBCBinder.java:136)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCBinder.readFromDatabase(JDBCBinder.java:91)
at org.hibernate.cfg.JDBCMetaDataConfiguration.readFromJDBC(JDBCMetaDataConfiguration.java:37)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard$3.execute(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:237)
at org.hibernate.console.ConsoleConfiguration.execute(ConsoleConfiguration.java:77)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.buildConfiguration(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:234)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.doFinish(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:164)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard.access$0(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:132)
at org.hibernate.eclipse.console.wizards.ArtifactGeneratorWizard$1.run(ArtifactGeneratorWizard.java:98)
at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:113)


Name and version of the database you are using:

PostrgreSQL 8.0.3-1 w/ the following drivers:
postgresql-8.0-312.jdbc2.jar
postgresql-8.0-312.jdbc2ee.jar
postgresql-8.0-312.jdbc3.jar

The application will pause before this occurs, the text above the progress bar indicates the JDBC meta data is being read. Lots of activity in the server side logs. I can connect to the DB from the same machine and manually query tables such as pg_tables w/ the same user name and password.

which version of the tools ? from cvs?

could you submit the DDL you are trying to reverse engineer in a jira case ?

version = hibernate-tools-3.0.0.alpha4a .

NPE still there after moving the DB from Linux/remote to Windows/local.

I am able to generate artifacts after blowing away 10 random tables (I just need any DB for the upcoming hbm2jsf contrib).

The schema might not be my intellectual property, in which case it can't go in the JIRA. I can find out what it is about those 10 tables if it interests you?

yes please.

One of the tables created by the backup script has no PK, just a not-null field w/ a unique constraint. I was not the author. Another table has a FK that refers to the unique field. I have stripped the entire schema down to 2 tables and 3 columns and I can still reproduce the error.

Kill the FK constraint, problem goes away.

if you could put that stripped down schema into jira i would appreciate it.