Hi,

for our application it will be necessary to create the mapping to the database during runtime, since metadata (databasetype, -name, -login, tablenames, columns) might nicht be available on compile-time (and might be changed by the user).
I get the impression that this could be possible with hibernate (but I am not sure) I want to if there is a tutorial about "Runtime Mapping" or where should I best search for information.

any hints?

thx

Peter

I've never seen the topic discussed bu I don't see any reason you couldn't generate the hibernate mapping documents at runtime before you create the session factory.

I'm wondering if you really mean runtime though. Is the database structure really going to change from run to run or could this generation be handle during installation. This way you could just include a JDBC program that would query the meta-data from the database and the user and generate the proper mappings.