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I want to let my client create his own fields and bean in the CMS dynamically.
As well, once he creates a form, I need to create an Hibernate Entity that could be saved to the database.
Is there a way to do it?
I am using JSF2 and Hibernate 3
With recompiling and without?
Creating tables and entities dynamically is IMO not a good idea. Hibernate is not really made for that and generating entities is only a small part of the problem. You would have to add them to the configuration, rebuild a session factory, update the model. And what about subsequent restarts of the application?Not recommended, just forget this approach…Another option would be to use an Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) model. This is something many CMS are doing. I’ve never implemented this with Hibernate but it’s doable (and has already been done). Here are some resources:
But to be honest, I wouldn’t implement my own CMS but rather reuse an existing one. One Hippo seems to be a candidate.
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