Hibernate is a great persistence tool. Is it possible to favor so called “conventions” over configuration and cut the size of configuration files. For example is it possible to achieve following

1- I just provide hibernate main configuration file that provides minimum critical configuration along with the objects that I want to persist.
2- I just write my domain classes (classes that I want to persist) and persistence classes using hibernate. I want hibernate to create the mapping files, database schema if needed (I know it does create schema).

Thanks for help.

Faikeeyes

Annotate your domain classes and use Hibernate Tools to generate mapping files. Or annotate and use JPA.