I am the Hibernate Code Generation tools to generate my entity from a reveng.xml file. Is there any way of changing the annotions from method access to property access.

eh you mean field access ?

yes - change the templates.

yes field access. I have had a look at the templates and was confused. I know i should be reading the documentation on freemarker. I tried to change it with the following

I changed the PojoFields.ftl to

// Fields

<#foreach field in pojo.getAllPropertiesIterator()><#if pojo.getMetaAttribAsBool(field, "gen-property", true)> <#if pojo.hasMetaAttribute(field, "field-description")> /**
${pojo.getFieldJavaDoc(field, 0)}
*/
</#if> <#include "Ejb3PropertyGetAnnotation.ftl"/> ${pojo.getFieldModifiers(field)} ${pojo.getJavaTypeName(field, jdk5)} ${field.name}<#if pojo.hasFieldInitializor(field, jdk5)> = ${pojo.getFieldInitialization(field, jdk5)}</#if>;
</#if>
</#foreach>

and commented out
<#include "Ejb3PropertyGetAnnotation.ftl"/>
in the PojoPropertyAccessors.ftl

Would this be the correct place to start.

Thanks

yes

Ok will try to work through this. Can you tell me if you have the settings for generating the sequence generator for the EJB3 entity beans by using the table name as the sequence name.

i don't understand ?

are you asking if we have some direct settings support for choosing the generator strategy and its parameters ? Then kind-of ;)

reveng.xml allows you to enter it manually per table

Writing a custom ReverseEngineeringStrategy allows you to control it automatically. Look at implementing:

public String getTableIdentifierStrategyName(TableIdentifier identifier);

public Properties getTableIdentifierProperties(TableIdentifier identifier);