John Citizen [https://community.jboss.org/people/johnqcitizen] created the discussion "Re: how can I reverse engineer and create POJOs from an existing database?" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/801478#801478 -------------------------------------------------------------- You don't have to use eclipse plugins here. You can also use the hibernate plugin for maven, and generate mapping files and POJOs from the command line. You would define a pom.xml file as follows (I've left out some of the normal POMN stuff here) : <project>   <build>     <plugins>      <plugin>        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>        <artifactId>hibernate3-maven-plugin</artifactId>        <version>2.2</version>          <configuration>            <components>              <component>                <name>hbm2hbmxml</name>                <implementation>jdbcconfiguration</implementation>                <outputDirectory>target/generated-resources/hibernate3</outputDirectory>              </component>              <component>                <name>hbm2java</name>                <implementation>jdbcconfiguration</implementation>                <outputDirectory>target/generated-sources/hibernate3</outputDirectory>              </component>            </components>            <componentProperties>              <revengfile>drc/main/resources/reveng.xml</revengfile>              <propertyfile>src/main/resources/hibernate.properties</propertyfile>              <packagename>com.whatever.domain</packagename>              <jdk5>true</jdk5>              <ejb3>true</ejb3>            </componentProperties>          </configuration>          <dependencies>            <dependency>              <groupId>cglib</groupId>              <artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId>              <version>2.2.2</version>            </dependency>            <dependency>              <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>              <artifactId>ojdbc</artifactId>              <version>11.1.0.6.0</version>            </dependency>          </dependencies>        </plugin>     </plugin>   </build> </project> You will need to change the values for the JDBC dependency (I'm using oracle). You will also need to define a src/main/resources/hibernate.propeties file: hibernate.connection.driver_class=oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@<server>:<port>:<instance> hibernate.connection.username=<username> hibernate.connection.password=<password> using suitable values for <server>, <port>, etc. And a src/main/resources/reveng.xml file to define your reverse engineering strategy, e.g. ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE hibernate-reverse-engineering PUBLIC   "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Reverse Engineering DTD 3.0//EN"   " http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-reverse-engineering-3.0.dtd http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-reverse-engineering-3.0.dtd" > <hibernate-reverse-engineering> <schema-selection match-schema="MY_SCHEMA"/> </hibernate-reverse-engineering> This specifies that only tables in the MY_SCHEMA schema are used for generating POJOs. Then run the following from the command line to generate POJOs with annotations: $ mvn hibernate3:hbm2java If you want to generate mapping files and POJOs without annotations, change the <ejb3> tag in the pom.xm to the following:   <ejb3>false</ejb3> then run the following:   $ mvn hibernate3:hbm2hbmxml    $ mvn hibernate3:hbm2java This is just a taster. You will need to look up additional information to get this working. Hope that helps. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/801478#801478] Start a new discussion in JBoss Tools at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]