RE: [Hibernate] Middlegen and XDoclet marriage

[<asl...@ne...>]

>        >>>>>>>XDoclet>>>>>>    >>>SchemaExport>>>>
> java + @tags             hbm.xml             SQL DDL
>        <<<CodeGenerator<<<<    <<<<<Middlegen<<<<<
>

Oh, the beauty!

>
> The the only leg of the roundtripping that is not
> fully reproduceable without user interaction is the
> DDL -> hbm.xml (ie. Middlegen) step.
>

Middlegen can indeed be run without user interaction. Just say gui="false"
to the middlegen task. If you run it without the gui, it will use defaults
or look at the preferences file (which will exist if Middlegen has been run
previously).

http://boss.bekk.no/boss/middlegen/ant/index.html#gui
http://boss.bekk.no/boss/middlegen/ant/index.html#prefsdir

Aslak