Hello, I'm having a bit of trouble with the hibernatetool ant task and was wondering if any of you could quickly clarify something.

In the eclipse hibernate tools reverse engineering GUI, there is the option to toggle a "Generate basic typed composite ids" option - which is exactly what I want.

I'm tyring to automate the reverse engineering process, using the hibernatetools ant task, but I can't find any way to set "Generate basic typed composite ids" within the hibernatetools/jdbconfiguration ant task. I can see the other GUI toggles are there - detectOptimisticLock and detectManyTomany - but I can't see hide nor hair of any way to set "Generate basic typed composite ids" except via the GUI - which is no use for automation.

Do i just have to suck it up and continue with manual generation for now, or am i missing something obvious?

Thanks.

Answering my own question to some extent, in case anybody ever comes after from google:

A bit of source diving shows me that there is an undocumented property for <jdbcconfiguration> in ant: preferBasicCompositeIds .

However there is a comment against it, "not exposed here", and perhaps unsurprisingly in the light of that, it doesn't seem to make any difference when you set it, which is unfortunate.

So it appears this functionality is exposed to the GUI reveng tool, but not to the ant tasks. So I might as well wave the white flag on this and continue manually generating.

Source I looked at: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/hibernat ... nTask.java