[forge-dev] reflection to access classes in project dependencies

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 07:45:01PM -0500, John Franey wrote:
>Would hibernate tools read JPA annotations, or only hibernate's?

It reads both. It uses hibernate for reading this so whatever
hibernate can reads it can read (but not necessarily write ;)

>What kind of artifacts does it generate?  

in tools it self is a few built in ones, like pojo and pojo+jpa and
hbm.xml files.

More in the docs.

> Does this activate a template
>translation?

Yes, it uses freemarker, but the interesting bit is that it generates
a Hibernate Configuration you can use to what you want.

>What is the name of this feature, so I can find it in the hibernate tools
>documentation?

Its the main almost only feature of hibernate tools :)

http://docs.jboss.org/tools/latest/en/hibernatetools/html_single/index.html#ant
is the best docs from perspective of usage from Ant. (Same doc has for
eclipse if interested).

Programmatically I haven't pushed it much but code is at
https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-tools
and you can ping me or possibly even Koen to give some more intro.

The Forge plugin that uses this already is at https://github.com/forge/plugin-hibernate-tools

/max
>
>
>On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <
>max.andersen at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> > Max,
>> >
>> > I didn't know hibernate tools had a reveng plugin to forge.  It did not
>> occur to me to look because I was too focused on generating gui from
>> entities which we developed manually.  I'll try it to see what results.
>>
>> I actually send that email to early not explaining well what I meant ;)
>>
>> The current forge hibernate tools is 100% "read via jbdc from a database
>> and generate entities".
>>
>> But hibernate tools core which forge hibernate tools is using actually
>> don't have to start with just a database; it can also be "take existing
>> classes and generate artifacts from that". As long as hibernate core can
>> understand the mappings hibernate tools can load it.
>>
>> The limitation of this is  of course you don't have the full Forge API
>> available to you (since hibernate tools was done pre-forge) but at least it
>> is an alternative that could be looked into using
>> in the short time. Just a thought.
>>
>> /max
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <
>> max.andersen at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Me too. However, I really, really want the feature: generate scaffold
>> from an existing jpa library.
>> >
>> > one way of doing this is just to use hibernatetools to get that model....
>> >
>> > /max
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