Brian,<br><br>Sorry for the late reply. Yeah everything is OK, just really busy and a bit stressed :) How are things on your end? <br><br>Re-adding the dev list so that Max and others will see.<br>To answer your questions, see responses inline.<br>
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***ERROR*** [generate-entities] &#39;hibernate.dialect&#39; must be set when no<br>
Connection available<br></blockquote><div><br>Not sure what this is about. It seems that some hibernate configuration properties need to be set somehow, Max?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

... i did &#39;project add-dependency<br>
org.hibernate:hibernate-tools:3.4.0.CR2-SNAPSHOT&#39;<br>
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i also modified my persistence.xml by hand.<br>
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neither seems to make much difference.  have rebuilt in forge and<br>
generate-entities is complaining about &#39;no connection available.&#39;<br></blockquote><div><br>The generate-entities command is not aware of persistence.xml (unless you did something to improve that.) It would certainly be nice, and even nicer if it would even talk to the appserver through JNDI, but as Max said, he had hard-coded all the connection properties in his initial effort. This is something that will need to be A. fixed, or B. worked around. <br>
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