I am implementing generation of the domain/model POJOs from database using the Hibernate3 Maven Plugin. The rationale is to ensure a DBA's updates to the database are automatically mapped to the model layer before a developer starts working on further things. So the way it has to work is that a Hibernate CFG is generated and then POJOs; also since the older implementation consisted of developers using annotations instead of hbm.xml the generated classes are required to be annotated. Here's extract from the POM for Hibernate Maven Plugin
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate3-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>hbm2cfgxml</id>
<phase>generate-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>hbm2cfgxml</goal>
</goals>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<configuration>
<components>
<component>
<name>hbm2cfgxml</name>
<implementation>jdbcconfiguration</implementation>
</component>
</components>
<componentProperties>
<ejb3>true</ejb3>
<packagename>com.dss.domain</packagename>
</componentProperties>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>hbm2java</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>hbm2java</goal>
</goals>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<configuration>
<components>
<component>
<name>hbm2java</name>
<implementation>annotationconfiguration</implementation>
</component>
</components>
<componentProperties>
<ejb3>true</ejb3>
<packagename>com.dss.domain</packagename>
<configurationfile>target/hibernate3/generated-mappings/hibernate.cfg.xml</configurationfile>
</componentProperties>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.16</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
</plugins>
I can see the cfg.xml file is generated; but hbm2java fails with message
Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:hibernate3-maven-plugin:2.2:hbm2java (hbm2java) on project dss-domain: Execution hbm2java of goal org.codehaus.mojo:hibernate3-maven-plugin:2.2:hbm2java failed: Unable to load class declared as < mapping class="com.dss.domain.Foo" / > in the configuration: -> [Help 1]
At a later stage all of this has to be moved the JPA implementation that we currently have, so the other question is do I then have to switch to jpaconfiguration in component properties?
Also none of these seems to work at all if I update the dependencies to the ones recently uopdated in the older project (Hibernate 3.6.6-FINAL); but that's a separate question posted here.
Any pointers or complete solutions are very welcome ;-)