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I am trying to reverse engineer hibernate mapping files from the database that I already have. I see that the .hbm.xml files are getting created properly for typed persitent classes. However, I want to model all my entities as generic models ( Maps) and hence I need to include the atrribute "entity-name" to the "Class" element in my mapping files. I don't want to do this manually one mapping file at a time. I looked at the DefaultReverseEngineeringStrategy and tried to supply my own reverse engineering strategy class. But I am not sure which method I should overrride to be able to add additional attribute "entity-name". Is it possible in the first place to tweak hibernate tools to do this?

the easiest thing here would be to go in and change the hbm/* templates to use entity-name instead of class.

Thanks Max. Can you point me to some links where I can get more information on how to change / customize the templates?. Also, is there a way I can specify custom templates without having to change them with in the jar archives?

copy the needed templates to a directory (including the root directory names) and point the templatepath in ant to it or set it in eclipse on the code generation launch page.