Are there any tools that can look at a database, and generate the basic mapping files?
It would be great if it could take a database, and create the actual model (java classes) with annotations, but not sure if that exists?
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Are there any tools that can look at a database, and generate the basic mapping files?
It would be great if it could take a database, and create the actual model (java classes) with annotations, but not sure if that exists?
Hibernate 3 has a toolset called Hibernate Tools that provides an Eclipse plugin and an Ant task that both support Reverse Engineering:
For the Eclipse plugin, have a look at this section of the documentation. For the Ant task, have a look at the section about reverse engineering and optionally how to control it.
Note that other IDEs also provide support for reverse engineering (see Hibernate Reverse Engineering for Netbeans 6.5 and Generating Persistence Mappings from Database Schema for IntelliJ).