Question

Is there a way to map an Entity class (Address.java) to MySQL without using Hibernate Mapping (.hbm files)

What i need to do is to Create a table called ‘Address’ in the MySQL DB, and create Columns with the attributes of this class, and later populate them.

But i need to do it without writing Hibernate mapping files (The .hbm files).

Persistence is one way of doing it, If so can someone tell me how to do it ?

Answer 1

Use annotations instead of XML: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/annotations/3.5/reference/en/html_single/#entity-overview

In your case, you would start by annotating the Address class with @Entity:

@Entity
@Table(name = "Address")
public class Address implements Serializable
{
    // fields
    // ctors
    // getters & setters
}