Hi,
Iam search of a value description of the property hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto.
I didnt found a value description in the Hibernate documentation.

validate
update
create
create-drop

Thanks
QStorm

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/api/org/hibernate/cfg/Environment.html#HBM2DDL_AUTO

http://www.docjar.com/html/api/org/hibernate/cfg/SettingsFactory.java.html

validate checks if the schema is correct at startup.

update creates missing columns and tables.

create creates all tables deleting existing data.

create-drop does the same, but drops the tables on application exit.

Thank you :)