Forward Engineering domain objects to tables

rajiv132 · **Joined:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:12 am **Posts:** 2

Hi,

We are creating an application from scratch and wanted to do pure object modelling. We are already in the process of defining our system in objects and was wondering if there are tools that will forward engineer domain objects to database tables? We are using the non-annotation and non-JPA implementation of hibernate. Proposal is to keep all mappings externally in hbm files and nowhere in code. Are there some tools which simplify this process?

Many thanks!
-Rajiv

Cameron McKenzie · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:48 pm

Hibernate Tools will help you do this!

rajiv132 · **Joined:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:12 am **Posts:** 2

I checked hibernate tools and not sure how I can really achieve this. All options seem to be pointing to reverse engineering and not the other way around. Can you point me to some documentation around how I can use hibernate tools to get this done?

Thanks,
Rajiv

Cameron McKenzie · **Posted:** Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:58 am

If you have an object model, you can just use the SchemaExport class to generate DDL/SQL, or even connect to a Schema and create the underlying database.