I am using the hibernate tools to reverse engineer from an oracle database. I am using only the reveng.xml file and going directly to the POJOs.

I have a supertype and subtype in the database that I want to reflect as a superclass and subclass in the java generation. Is there anyway to do this within the reveng.xml file. I have added in the <meta attribute="extends"/> tag and it will generate this correctly, but will still include the primary key from the superclass.

I want to have the superclass have the unique identifier and the subclass inherit this identifier as well. The generation includes this key and there is no way that I have found to exclude this column in a subclass generation. It also does composition with the superclass which it doesn't need to do with java inheritance.

Any suggestions?

the reveng engine does not (yet) have support for modelling inheritance.

Is this part of the road map and if so do you have a time frame that this will be implemented?

Also is there another workaround that can be done without manually pulling out the unnecessary code?

Thank you for the help.

Manual workaround -> manually adjust the code (maybe you can adjust the templates too to skip the id generation in case of "extends" existing - thats a hack though ;)

road map -> it's been asked before and I always said that if someone finds a good way of doing it without actually reinventing the mapping files in reveng.xml then we could do it. The problem is just that if it becomes too easy to do it too many people will just rely on reveng to do all their mappings and no realize that they are most likely running with very suboptimal mappings (on the other hand it would also be good that reveng.xml would allow you to tweak enough to be ok....but then things like specifying cascades would be much more relevant)