Hi NG!

I want to implement the hibernate-tool-hbm-generate-template "component.hbm.ftl" to fit my needs.

I've learned, that the ftl-files are written in freemarker, so i have
to learn this. Is there any documentation available, that would
help me learning freemarker in the context of hibernate-tools?

Regards,

Berti

How can I get informations about the datamodel available
during generation of a hbbm-file?

E.G. where do the variables c2h and clazz come from?

The best way it to firstly understand how freemarker is executed - eg - setting up the variable context. Then read the source to the tools - it should become clear once you reviewed the code base.

Thanks for your comment!

ATM I'm digging deeper into the topic with the hibernate-api, the hibernate-tools-sources and the freemarker-documentation.

At the moment I don't understand, how to access the properties
of the embedded class when rendering the embedding class.

At the point when hibernate-tools is rendering the file component.hbm.xml the embedded class is a property of the embedding class. So I want to access the properties of a property. I can't figure out how this could work...

Any ideas?

Look at the java/pojo templates how they handle the properties.