[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HBX-929) Enable base class generation

[Norman Franke (JIRA)]

    [ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-929?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_26712 ] 

Norman Franke commented on HBX-929:
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Cool, that works and without modifying the HBM template files. I sill needed to modify the pojo ones to add an import, since I want the Base classes in a different package for easier mainteance (i.e. I can delete the whole folder in Eclipse and regenerate without worrying about deleting stuff I wrote.)

A field to specify a package for a base class could take the place of a checkbox, and if non-empty, would do this. That would really ease modelling. 

While you are at it, maybe generate DAO's using this pattern: http://www.hibernate.org/328.html of generics indead of separate classes per table.

> Enable base class generation
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>
>                 Key: HBX-929
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-929
>             Project: Hibernate Tools
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: datagen, hbm2java
>    Affects Versions: 3.2beta9
>         Environment: Hibernate 3.2.3
>            Reporter: Norman Franke
>             Fix For: 3.2beta10
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> Using the reverse engineering features, I'd like to be able to have it generate base classes (e.g. TableNameBase) and yet tell Hibernate to use the parent class, e.g. TableName. I read that one can add a meta attribute "generated-class" to do this but (a) there is no way to make this happen via the Eclipse Plugin and (b) even if one modifies the template to add it, it doesn't seem to pick it up (it does end up in the resulting hbm.xml files.) The Run... GUI can't seem to generate Java files from the hbm.xml files either, so one must reverse engineer anyway, which is another annoyance.

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