HI

I'm using the hibernate annotation. I've got all my entities ready. but I used a main function which contains configuration rather than that hibernate.cfg.xml... I'd like to know how to make it automatically do the initialisation when I run the project on tomcat server??? I'm new to hibernate and I dont know too much with this.


Thanks

Hi,

when working in a webapp you usually bootstrap Hibernate from a Servlet or Filter. You can write your own, but depending on which framework you are using a Hibernate integration might be already included. Spring eg offers a OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter or OpenSessionInViewFilter
to boostrap Hibernate. This filters also ensure that a Hibernate session exists while a request gets served. Have a read about the Open Session in View pattern: http://hibernate.org/43.html.

--Hardy