Configure seam-gen to use hbm.xml instead of annotated classes

[rafaelri]

Hi all,

Is there any way I could configure Seam-Gen to generate hbm.xml files instead of annotated classes?
I've searched over google but I could only find this page.
The reason I am trying to do this is to enable me to use the database comments (that are unsupported for annotations) inside freemarker templates. I am willing to use column comments as field labels on the generated edit pages ftl templates.

best regards,
Rafael Ribeiro

[rafaelri]

We were able to figure out after a few more attempts.
Locate the following code on seam-gen\build.xml

<target name="generate-model" depends="validate-project,init-generate">
        <echo message="Reverse engineering database using JDBC driver ${driver.jar}"/>
        <echo>project=${project.home}</echo>
        <echo>model=${model.package}</echo>
        <hibernate templatepath="${templates.dir}">
            <jdbcconfiguration propertyfile="${seam-gen.properties}"
                                packagename="${model.package}"
                                 revengfile="${project.home}/resources/seam-gen.reveng.xml"
                           detectmanytomany="false"/>

            <property key="hibernatetool.util.toolclass"
                    value="org.jboss.seam.tool.Util"/>
            <hbm2hbmxml destdir="${project.home}/src/main"/>
            <hbm2java jdk5="true" ejb3="false" destdir="${project.home}/src/main"/>
        </hibernate>

        <taskdef name="javaformatter"
             classname="org.hibernate.tool.ant.JavaFormatterTask" classpathref="htools.classpath"/>

        <javaformatter>
          <fileset dir="${project.home}/src/main">
                  <include name="**/*.java"/>
          </fileset>
        </javaformatter>

    </target>

The example above is already changed to output hbm.xml files, the changes are:

• Setting ejb3=false


• And adding the tag hbm2hbmxml

In summary... the most relevant lines are

           <hbm2hbmxml destdir="${project.home}/src/main"/>
            <hbm2java jdk5="true" ejb3="false" destdir="${project.home}/src/main"/>