20.2.8. Schema Validation

The SchemaValidator tool will validate that the existing database schema "matches" your mapping documents. The SchemaValidator depends heavily upon the JDBC metadata API and, as such, will not work with all JDBC drivers. This tool is extremely useful for testing.

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

The following table displays the SchemaValidator command line options:

You can embed SchemaValidator in your application:

Configuration cfg = ....;
new SchemaValidator(cfg).validate();