This chapter, will give you a short overview of the support for Seam that is available in the Hibernate Tools. Hibernate Tools is a set of tools for working with Hibernate and related technologies, such as JBoss Seam and EJB3. The tools are available as a set of eclipse plugins and Ant tasks. You can download the Hibernate Tools from the JBoss Tools or Hibernate Tools websites.
The specific support for Seam that is currently available is generation of a fully functional Seam based CRUD-application. The CRUD-application can be generated based on your existing Hibernate mapping files or EJB3 annotated POJO's or even fully reverse engineered from your existing database schema.
The following sections is focused on the features required to understand for usage with Seam. The content is derived from the the Hibernate Tools reference documentation. Thus if you need more detailed information please refer to the Hibernate Tools documentation.
27.2.1. Creating a Hibernate configuration file
To be able to reverse engineer and generate code a hibernate.properties or hibernate.cfg.xml file is needed. The Hibernate Tools provide a wizard for generating the hibernate.cfg.xml file if you do not already have such file.
Start the wizard by clicking "New Wizard" (Ctrl+N), select the Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration file (cfg.xml) wizard and press "Next". After selecting the wanted location for the hibernate.cfg.xml file, you will see the following page:
Tip: The contents in the combo boxes for the JDBC driver class and JDBC URL change automatically, depending on the Dialect and actual driver you have chosen.
Enter your configuration information in this dialog. Details about the configuration options can be found in Hibernate reference documentation.
Press "Finish" to create the configuration file, after optionally creating a Console onfiguration, the hibernate.cfg.xml will be automatically opened in an editor. The last option "Create Console Configuration" is enabled by default and when enabled i will automatically use the hibernate.cfg.xml for the basis of a "Console Configuration"
