hi,
after playing around with django for a while i got used to having an auto-generated admin interface for all my models right after configuring the ORM ;) (see also http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial02/)

so i wondered myself if it would be possible to have the same features for hibernate.. and.. it seems the meta data which can be retrieved from the SessionFactory would be more than sufficient.. and it's actually very easy ..

i've put up a small "proof of concept" which supports basic CRUD for "simple" models (models with a simple generated primary key and properties of primitive types, date and ManyToOne relations).. i've copied the CSS/HTML from django - you can see it at http://sphene.net:8080/HibernateAutoAdm ... min.action (no authentication implemented.. no error handling, nothing.. just basic CRUD actions without any checking)

so .. my question is .. before i continue development .. is there already something like it out there ? it seems to be very easy and straight forward.. and you would have a ready-to-use admin interface for small websites, prototypes & co without a single line of extra code ...


cu,
herbert

Sounds like JBoss SEAM stuff that you can generate from the HibernateTools project. I'd check the Tools documentation and look at SEAM.

could you give me a hint for what exactly i have to look in the docs ? the closest i'm finding is: http://docs.jboss.com/seam/1.2.1.GA/ref ... l#d0e15977 "CRUD-application generator"

but what i meant is not code generation, but having an administration interface which gets generated dynamically by retrieving the mappings and meta data of models from hibernate's session factory.

ie. just tell the admin interface where on the classpath it can find the hibernate.cfg.xml so it can set up hibernate and everything else is done on-the-fly

no need to generate code imo ..

Aha, I see what you're looking for. And, nope, never seen an implementation of that. Sounds nice for certain instances (remotely hosted apps, for instance). I've been through the metadata quite a bit, and everything you would need to do that is there. Sounds like a PITA to implement, perhaps someone else has some insight.