We have some Hibernate Search tests which use multi-tenancy, and require the schema to be exported explicitly. I'm trying to get these to run now with Hibernate ORM 5. I can't use the command line tool, as the test configuration options should be passed by instance (there are several unit tests to be run, each with its own configuration). I already have a SessionFactory started, so I'd prefer to use its metadata if possible, but while SchemaExport has plenty of constructors, it doesn't seem to have one I could use. This one looks like a good candidate: SchemaExport(ConnectionHelper connectionHelper, MetadataImplementor metadata) as I do have a ConnectionHelper instance. But while I have a reference to my SessionFactory, and a reference to the Configuration which started it, I couldn't find a way to get a MetadataImplementor from these? Wouldn't it be very useful to have something like SchemaExport(ConnectionHelper connectionHelper, SessionFactorty sf) ? I think all multi-tenancy users would need something similar. Partially unrelated, the methods: - org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.generateDropSchemaScript(Dialect) - org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.generateSchemaCreationScript(Dialect) are returning an hard coded String[0]. Should these be implemented before 5.0.0.Final, or are these meant to be deprecated? Thanks, Sanne