[Springframework-developer] Schema and DB Migration Best Practices

[Jan N. <jan...@gm...>]

Hello,

I'm new to Spring - my apologies if this is a bit pedantic. I've been
reviewing how to implement schema and data evolution in a new
Spring-based application using Hibernate (I'm also new to Hibernate),
as well as migration of existing production data into the new DB.
Surprisingly, I found very little relevant in a Nabble search of
Spring's developer and user archives. And I found nothing in the
Spring documentation. Perhaps "Schema migration", "DB migration" are
the wrong terms for Spring applications?

I'm clearly not the only one facing issues of schema and data
migration and evolution in Spring applications. Are there any best
practices, support, existing tools, thoughts, etc.? For example, using
Spring's Hibernate support, where/when should table creation be done?

So far, I've found a few different solutions:

  -LiquiBase (I have not used it yet)
  -few different home-grown Spring framework plug-ins

Any thoughts, corrections, re-directs, etc. are greatly appreciated.


Many thanks,

-Jan