I just started working on a project that uses hibernate. Part of the project uses the legacy database schema to reverse engineer the java classes and part of the project uses annotations to create the database schema. I don't like this and I am trying to find a way to create all of the schemas from java files so that the project is consistent. My idea is to reverse engineer from the schema once and set ejb3="true" when running hbm2java. From then on when I build the project I could just use the annotations in the java files to create the database (as the rest of the project does already). Does this make sense? Is that what the annotations created by ejb3="true" are intended for? I'm very new to hibernate and this sort of development in general so any help would be appreciated.

yes that would work in theory, but isn't there a reason to why the tables are in the DB in the first place ?:)