eclipse plugin to create hibernate annotated entities?

Question

i know that hibernate tools can create hibernate entities but the hibernate mapping will be in XML file, but i was wondering if there's a tool to create hibernate entities and the mapping will be with annotations not in XML.

Solution 1

Write your java code and use Source > Generate Hibernate/Jpa annotations and hibernate tools will do an attempt to add necessary annotations based on that

Solution 2

Hibernate tools can also generate the annotated entities by reverse engineering of your database. You have to choose Generate EJB3 annotations and Domain code(.java) . Refer to the 4.5. Reverse Engineering and Code Generation more info.

Comments

[Mahmoud Saleh]

hmmmmmmmm, i was thinking of something like a wizard to enter the fields and the relations and annotations.

[Suvasis]

Could you please elaborate on how to Generate JPA annotations using hibernate tools. I am looking for simillar kind of process.