Question

I found this documentation http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/4.0/manual/en-US/html/toolsetguide.html#toolsetguide-s1-3 saying that we can run SchemaExport using command line

java -cp hibernate_classpaths org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport options mapping_files 

Can someone please provide an example of how this is used? What is the format of the classpath (perhaps a example classpath), how do I do it with a hbm.xml mapping?

Thanks

Answer 1

Not a problem 🙂
Example:

java -cp "hibernate/*" org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport --properties=hibernate.properties --text Person.hbm.xml User.hbm.xml

Here “hibernate/*” means that you have a folder named “hibernate” with all libraries for hibernate (incl. hibernate3 of course).

in my case:

• antlr-2.7.6.jar
• cglib-2.2.jar
• commons-collections-3.1.jar
• dom4j-1.6.1.jar
• hibernate-testing.jar
• hibernate3.jar
• javassist-3.9.0.GA.jar
• jta-1.1.jar
• log4j-1.2.16.jar
• slf4j-api-1.5.8.jar
• slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar

You have to put in the current folder the file hibernate.properties (you can use hibernate.cfg.xml, but option will be –config instead of –properties. I.e. “–config=hibernate.cfg.xml”)

–text – output to the console
Next a list of necessary files *.hbm.xml.

That’s all.