Does anyone know if there is an XML Schema representation of the hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd?

If one existed this would allow for a JAXB representation and easier generation of the HBM files.

Thanks
Tim

There is nothing like this in H . Here's an article on some JAXB ish features though.

http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/27896

XML Schema is more powerful than XML DTD because it provides additional features. Because of this DTD's are slowly being phased out for XML Schema replacements.

So if you have a DTD you should be able to generate an XML Schema or create one by hand that exactly replicates the DTD. My question was simply asking if someone has completed either of these two options.

It would also be nice to see XML Schema rather than DTD through out Hibernate so that it can keep up with the times. Personally my reason for requiring an XML Schema is because it would be significantly easier to generate an HBM xml file by using a technology such as JAXB which heavily relies on an XML Schema

I know



Keeping up w/ the times is moving away from XML altogether and towards annotations.



easier then using the ant tasks, eclipse plug-ins, documentation and a forum that all come w/ hibernate tools?

The underlying question is... How and where is the meta data stored that allows one to generate a java model, configuration files, and anything else required? I am not familiar with the entire Hibernate Tools package, how do it store it's meta data and is it robust? In theory everything could be generated from meta data who is to say you require a java object before generating an HBM file. It is my understanding that annotations are simply a representation of the meta data stored in the java objects. In my case the meta data is stored elsewhere.

the metadata is stored in the org.hibernate.Configuration.