+ The hibernate4-maven-plugin is a plugin for generating a database-schema + from your Hibernate-4-Mappings and create or update your database + accordingly. + Its main usage is to automatically create and populate a test-database + for unit-tests in cooperation with the + dbunit-maven-plugin. +
++ The plugin was designed with three main goals in mind: +
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+ To achieve the first goal, the convention-over-configuration paradigma
+ was applied and the plugin was stuffed with usefull logging-messages.
+ So, if in doubt, just turn on the debugging output with the mvn -X ....
+
+ To achieve the second goal, the precedence in which the configuration + locations are consulted was layouted in a way that makes it possible, to + prevent overwrites of the wrong database by accident. +
++ Last but not least, in order to not slow down the development cycle, the + hibernate4-maven-plugin only executes the schema-export, if the mapping + or the dialect changes (or if you force it to do so). +
++ For more information about the inspiration to write this tiny plugin, + read our blog-article about the hibernate4-maven-plugin. +
+SchemaExport and SchemaUpdate, that do
+ the work in the background.
+