Is there an equivalent of JDBC Metadata for getting all tables in the schema for example?

Thanks in advance!

I am not sure if I understand the problem correctly but you can call getAllClassMetadata from a hibernate SessionFactory instance. That will only tell you about the modeled classes though.


Farzad-

SessionFactory? I'm not using those yet. I'm basically a newbie and so far I'm working with EntityManagers.

The method you mention should do the trick but how I build the SessionFactory from the EntityManager?

Get ahold of the EntityManagerFactory and cast it to HibernateEntityManagerFactory. That should give you the SessionFactory. However, your code will be implementation dependent which I guess is fine in this case.


Farzad-

What you mean by implementation dependent?

EntityManager is a part of JPA spec. HibernateEntityManager is a part of hibernate. With pure JPA code hypothetically you can switch between any JPA prodiver. However, this becomes a little harder when you use hibernate classses and annotations (implementation dependent). Nonetheless, this is more or less inevitable. You will most likely end up using some hibernate annotations or a hibernate class here and there.


Farzad-

Thanks for the help I think this will do the trick. Have a nice weekend!