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Hibernate 4 Maven Plugin
-A simple Plugin for generating a Database-Schema from Hibernate 4 Mapping-Annotations
-- The hibernate-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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- It should be easy to use. -
- It should be maximal unlikely, to erase a producation-database by accident. -
- It should not slow down the development cycle. -
- 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 - hibernate-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 hibernate-maven-plugin. -
-Documentation
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- - See Configuration Examples for Usage-Explanations - and simple examples of how to use this plugin. - -
- - See hibernate:export and - Plugin Documentation for the full - autogenerated documentation. These are mostly configuration-options - of the Hibernate-Tools SchemaExport and SchemaUpdate, that do - the work in the background. - -