Hi,

I'm new to hibernate so I'm not sure if I'm using it for the right thing or not here. I was trying to make my database completely agnostic which seemed to be what hibernate is all about. I don't want to have to install a database on clients machines but have hibernate build them for me.

My problem at the moment is Lookup tables. I need to populate these tables and I'm currently doing it from the code. I'm just about to take it out into XML and was wondering could tell me if I'm just heading in completely the wrong direction or not, am I using hibernate for what it's intended for or are you always supposed to have a base database that hibernate just helps communications with?