Base problem: I'm not getting any information out of the DB when I try to reverse engineer. (I may be utterly confused about how reverse engineering is meant to work, so the real problem might be elsewhere entirely.)

I have Eclipse with hibernate-tools installed.
I walked through the wizards for hibernate.cfg.xml and console configuration. I didn't know what to enter for "Session Factory Name" or "Default Catalog", so I left them empty.

The generated hibernate.cfg.xml looks like this:


Now when I open Hibernate Configuration, I get no subentries under "Configuration" or "Session Factory", and a permanent "Pending..." under database.
The wizard for hibernate.reveng.xml gives me the same perma-"Pending..." under "Database schema:" if I click "Refresh" (after selecting the proper console configuration).
In both cases, I get a permanent "Fetching children of Database" entry in the Progress view and nothing in the Eclipse logfile.

What's wrong?

oracle is notoriously slow for us to get all the metadata - make sure you have set default_schema and it is not scott if your schema is named SCOTT

Ah. It worked - I see patience is a virtue in this case. Thanks :)
(Would it be possible to add some continuous feedback to the UI? Something indicating how much work was done - tables analyzed, bytes read, or similar.)

I see that "Configuration" and "Session Factory" remain empty in Hibernate Configuration.
Is that intentional?

It should be showing you the progress in the Progress/Job view.



If there aren't any entities configured (i.e. an empty project) then they will be empty.

There is a "Fetching children of Database" entry.
No progress bar or other messages, and certainly not anything that changes (at least I didn't notice anything during the first 80% of the running time).

OK, I haven't done anything with Hibernate yet. I'll be back with a new question if I hit another problem.

Thanks for the help!