generate hbm files from java?

rhodespc · **Joined:** Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:07 am **Posts:** 14

Is this done via xdoclet, or hibernate tools?

It appears that this is done via xdoclet. If this is the case, it could be nice to more clearly document this in the ant hibernate tools page. It took me a while to figure out that hbm generation is only from reverse engineering a database and not java code.

Thanks.
Phillip

chrisco · **Joined:** Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:11 am **Posts:** 48

If you want to do that from your Java code or indeed your object model then you may be interested in the following post.

http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=949601

max · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:59 pm

annotations is also a possibilty.

we previously had a class2hbm, but pre jdk 1.5 there were not enough informaiton to provide a good mapping.

now with generics in jdk 1.5 it would make sense to reintroduce it - but its a low priority. Contributions welcome