Hello!
I have googled and searched (forums, documentation, FAQ, etc) for an answer to my question, but so far, no dice.
I would like to know if it's possible to generate metadata (hibernate.cfg.xml) from my annotation configuration?
I've read this from the FAQ:

It says I can't see, but isn't there any way to generate the metadata?
I'd like to do that in order to use the cfg.xml as a datasource in iReport so I could build the report pages and see the data as I go along.
Thanks!

A better solution would be to fix iReport to work with annotations. They bundle an ancient version of hibernate with even the latest iReport - and they set up a simple org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration instead of an org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration - if they just change two lines of code and then fix their ancient version of hibernate you should be able to get it to work.

I submitted a bug to them today. They are using NetBeans projects for their build, and it makes swapping out dependency versions require an act of diety. This is probably why they have had the same old version of hibernate in their stuff for a long time.

if you are handy with NetBeans and know how to make it perform what SHOULD be a 2-second task to fix that - let me know if that works for you.

I decided to work with a different approach. If I had the time (@work right now then I'm off to my parents' to spend easter break) I'd look into what you said ryangardner.
Thx anyway!

I've been working with the lead developer on iReport - he's been putting work into getting annotations to work properly.

http://jasperforge.org/plugins/espforum ... icid=54839

Neat, going from old version to Hibernate 3.4.0 and annotations support. Good news indeed.