20.2.3. Running the Tool

The SchemaExport tool writes a DDL script to standard out and/or executes the DDL statements.

The following table displays the SchemaExport command line options

java -cphibernate_classpathsorg.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport options mapping_files

Table 20.2. SchemaExport Command Line Options
Option	Description
`--quiet`	do not output the script to stdout
`--drop`	only drop the tables
`--create`	only create the tables
`--text`	do not export to the database
`--output=my_schema.ddl`	output the ddl script to a file
`--naming=eg.MyNamingStrategy`	select a `NamingStrategy`
`--config=hibernate.cfg.xml`	read Hibernate configuration from an XML file
`--properties=hibernate.properties`	read database properties from a file
`--format`	format the generated SQL nicely in the script
`--delimiter=;`	set an end of line delimiter for the script

You can even embed SchemaExport in your application:

Configuration cfg = ....;
new SchemaExport(cfg).create(false, true);