FFL2:FFL2 Main/Hibernate Reverse Engineering

To reverse engineer the hibernate mappings and objects from the schema some additional setup is required.

Note that in this example a VMWare image is being used to run MySQL, this is because MySQL is case-insensitive on Windows and always returns table names in lower case. This causes two problems

1. Generated class names won't be capitalised as we would like
2. The generated config won't work on Linux

Install Hibernate Tools Eclipse plugin

• The update URL is http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/
• The installation procedure is the same as that described for the SVN plugin at FFL2:FFL2 Main/Dev_Environment/Install_Subclipse_Eclipse_plugin except that only the 'Hibernate Tools' component under 'JBoss Tools' is required. Don't install the full 'JBoss Tools' suite.

Create a Hibernate configuration in Eclipse

Open the Hibernate perspective then right-click and choose 'Add Configuration...' in the Hibernate Configurations view. Set up the 'Main' and 'Options' tabs as shown below

When creating the database connection under 'Main' using the 'New...' button, the JAR file for the driver to use needs to be specified by clicking the triangle next to the 'Drivers' drop-down

Finally, click 'Test Connection' to check it is ok.