Hibernate Tools Installation on Eclipse 3.4.2

ataraxis6 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:38 pm **Posts:** 5

Has anyone ever been able to install Hibernate Tools on eclipse? I have tried to install it by following instructions on the following page without any success.

http://www.jboss.org/tools/download/update

After installation, I am able to create a hibernate connection profile, but when I try to connect to the database, nothing happens. There are no error messages. The plugin seems to have been release with any testing.

I will appreciate it if someone who has success with installation, help me identify what I am missing here. Are there any other tools or plugins I could use beside Hibernate Tools?

Froestel · **Posted:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:30 pm

Hi ataraxis6,

Quote:

...I have tried to install it by following instructions on the following page without any success.

http://www.jboss.org/tools/download/update

After installation,...

Looks like you succeeded in the end... ;-)

It would be very helpful if you'd provide some more info

on the Hibernate Tools version
on the database you use and its version
on the connection profile you created
on anything else you might think is relevant

I can hardly believe the Hibernate people would release anything without testing. There might be some issue on your very system causing trouble that hasn't surfaced anywhere else... Stay calm, stick to your user name and keep your ataraxia - there are several people out there trying to help out.

If you can provide at least some of the information I requested above I am pretty sure that there will be a solution to be found.

CU
Froestel

ataraxis6 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:38 pm **Posts:** 5

I have the following configuration on my system.

Eclipse 3.4.2 (Build id: M20090211-1700)
Hibernate Tools 3.2.4.GA-R200905070146-H18
Database Apache Derby 10.5.1.1
Tried both JDK 1.5.0_21 & 1.6.0_16

Code:

<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory name="sessionFactory">
        <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.password">welcome</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/derby</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.username">myapp</property>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect</property>
    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

I have also tried development and nightly build of hibernate tools with Eclipse 3.5 on different systems with the same result. I intend to try a different database tomorrow to see if it makes any difference.

max · **Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:19 am

What is the actual thing you are trying to do ?

Connect to the db means what ? Where you trying to reverse engineer, did you use the hibernate perpsective to browse the database or the DTP perspective ? And what did you expect it to do that it didnt do ?

Some more details on what you are actually trying to do would help us help you ;)

ataraxis6 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:38 pm **Posts:** 5

I expect my database schema and tables to be listed in the Hibernate Configurations view. It seems that the plugin does not work with the version of Apache Derby I am using (10.5.1.1). I tried the plugin with H2 database and it worked like a charm. I was able to browse the schema and also reverse engineered code.

I would suggest that if the plugin is not able to connect to the database and retrieve schema information, it should display a message in the Eclipse error log to indicate what went wrong.

max · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:32 am

So we do report what went wrong - not sure what we can do here ? Looks like a misconfiguration ?

ataraxis6 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:38 pm **Posts:** 5

Well, in my case the plugin didn't report any errors in the Eclipse error log. The .metadata\.plugins\org.hibernate.eclipse\hibernate-tools.log was also empty.