I was just getting in to things when I noticed that every time I added data to my DB it would drop and recreate all the tables first.

I'm starting out simple, all persisted classes are created by hbm2java and SchemaExport creates the schema. I have then written a couple of simple utils that load the DB with some data from a file. The session is created and saved basically using identical code to the Cat tutorial.

Every time I run my apps though I see in the mysql log all the tables being desroyed/recreated and all of my old data has gone. Did I miss something really obvious? :-P

(I think I saw a similar post before but can't find it, sorry)

Thanks.

I remember a similiar post, also. I think it may have been on the old forum (available at sourceforge).

If I remember correctly, it was an issue where the user's property file was not being found and so hibernate was actually using the default property file inside the jar. The issue was that in one of the releases, the default values for schema generation in the file were set to always regernerate the schema.

Here's a link to that discussion:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2158078

Thanks Steve! I had a quick look through the thread and now everything is working how I'd expect :)

To quote the original poster...

I added the following in my Hibernate.cfg.xml
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">false</property>