[hibernate-dev] SchemaManagementTool / Exportable

The basics of org.hibernate.service.schema.spi.SchemaManagementTool are essentially done. There is a lot of clean up I want to do after Configuration is gutted or removed, changing how SchemaExport, etc work internally. But one thing I wanted to discuss was to change up how Exportable works. Today, its really not much different than what we used to do. The database objects themselves know how to render themselves into SQL CREATE/DROP/ALTER commands. What I am contemplating is externalizing this rendering (lets call them ExportableRenderer, thought better names welcome). This would serve 2 useful purposes: 1) Clean up the Table, Sequence, etc code clutter. 2) Allow plugging in alternate renderings for things. This could be dialects or users or event custom SchemaManagementTool supplied. WDYT? -- steve(a)hibernate.org http://hibernate.org