Hibernate Tools

Ch1 introduction

Key features: code generation, reverse engineering, editors

Ch2 Installation

JBoss tools include Hibernate tools

Use Eclipse Web Tools (WTP)

To use with Ant - need hibernate-tools.jar and associated libraries

Ch3 Code generation architecture

Note: dialect configuration is on Hibernate Tools configuration, not read from hibernate.cfg.xml

Hibernate Configurations

First, copy JDBC jar to library dir

Type: Core, Annotations or JPA

Project: select

Database connection: select or new, test before use

Property or Configuration file: setup -> create

Connection

General

• Database: only an arbitrary name

• URL: jdbc:mysql://host:3306/schemaName