Code gen to generate Java Classes

Article:		Hibernate Your Data
Subject:		Code gen to generate Java Classes
Date:		2004-12-30 17:05:29
From:		dvohra09

In the tutorial the java classes, with the getter and the setter methods, were created prior to the retrieving and storing of the data in the database. Hibernate has the provision to generate the java classes from the `hbm.xml` configuration file with the Hibernate code generation class `net.sf.hibernate.tool.hbm2java.hbm2JavaTask`. Also, the database tables were created prior to the implementing the Hibernate features. Hibernate provides the schema generation class `net.sf.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExportTask` to generate the database schema for a `hbm.xml` configurtion file.