[zhihai]

I have some existing Java classes but no database tables. Is there a wizard to map/create tables based on Java objects? Given that reverse engineering is to create Java from tables, this would be forward engineering. But how do you launch the forward engineering wizard? Thanks in advance.

[Haris Peco]

It is not possible to create tables from unannotated Java classes as there just isn’t enough information. This is why hbm.xml files are used or annotated classes are used by Hibernate, which do provide enough information to generate DDL. Generating DDL from mapping files is a planned feature, but does not exist in the current toolset.

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Peco

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