Hibernate 4 Maven Plugin
+ +A simple Plugin for generating a Database-Schema from Hibernate 4 Mapping-Annotations
+ ++ 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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- 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 + 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. +
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- + See Configuration Examples for Usage-Explanations + and simple examples of how to use this plugin. + + +
- + See hibernate4: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. + +