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1. Introduction ................................................................................................................. 1
1.1. Key Features ...................................................................................................... 1
1.2. Other relevant resources on the topic .................................................................. 2
2. Download and install Hibernate Tools ......................................................................... 3
2.1. JBoss Tools ....................................................................................................... 3
2.2. Eclipse IDE ........................................................................................................ 3
2.2.1. Using Eclipse WTP .................................................................................. 3
2.3. Ant ..................................................................................................................... 4
3. Code generation architecture ...................................................................................... 5
3.1. Hibernate Meta Model ......................................................................................... 5
3.2. Exporters ............................................................................................................ 6
4. Eclipse Plugins ............................................................................................................ 7
4.1. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 7
4.1.1. Download base project ............................................................................. 7
4.2. Creating a Hibernate Mapping File ...................................................................... 7
4.3. Creating a Hibernate Configuration File .............................................................. 14
4.4. Hibernate Console Configuration ........................................................................ 16
4.4.1. Creating a Hibernate Console Configuration ............................................. 16
4.4.2. Modifying a Hibernate Console Configuration ........................................... 28
4.4.3. Closing Hibernate Console Configuration ................................................. 31
4.5. Reverse Engineering and Code Generation ........................................................ 33
4.5.1. Code Generation Launcher ..................................................................... 33
4.5.2. Exporters ............................................................................................... 36
4.6. Hibernate Mapping and Configuration File Editor ................................................ 42
4.6.1. Java property/class completion ............................................................... 43
4.6.2. Table/Column completion ........................................................................ 44
4.6.3. Configuration property completion ........................................................... 44
4.7. Structured Hibernate Mapping and Configuration File Editor ................................. 46
4.8. JBoss Tools Properties Editor ............................................................................ 50
4.9. Reveng.xml Editor ............................................................................................. 56
4.10. Hibernate Console Perspective ........................................................................ 61
4.10.1. Viewing the entity structure ................................................................... 62
4.10.2. Prototyping Queries .............................................................................. 80
4.10.3. Properties View .................................................................................... 86
4.11. Hibernate:add JPA annotations refactoring ....................................................... 88
4.12. Enable debug logging in the plugins ................................................................. 94
4.12.1. Relevant Resources Links ..................................................................... 94
4.13. Hibernate support for Dali plugins in Eclipse WTP ............................................. 95
4.13.1. Creating JPA project with Hibernate support .......................................... 95
4.13.2. Generating DDL and Entities ................................................................. 99
4.13.3. Hibernate Annotations Support ............................................................ 102
4.13.4. Relevant Resources Links ................................................................... 110
5. Ant Tools ................................................................................................................. 111
5.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................... 111
