Does Hibernate (2.1) support dynamic table creation? I have an app that will recieve an object defining a table structure that needs creation. A second object or collection will contain the data to populate the new table.

Jay

Sure, whynot?

You can create a configuration at runtime using the mapping metamodel and then run schemaexport.

Great. I'm going thru the api now, but it's little light on documentation.

Should I instantiate a new Mappings object, or let the Configuration getMappings() method provide me one? From there I plan on creating Table and Column objects to build the mapping.

However, once I do this, I'll have a table, but no Class associated to it (no persistable POJOs). I need to do batch loading into the table.

I'm still in the investigative stages for this "importing" of dynamic data. Perhaps straight JDBC would be more applicable here? Thoughts?

Jay