20.2. Automatic Schema Generation

<property name="zip" length="5"/>

<property name="balance" precision="12" scale="2"/>

<many-to-one name="bar" column="barId" not-null="true"/>

<element column="serialNumber" type="long" not-null="true" unique="true"/>

<many-to-one name="org" column="orgId" unique-key="OrgEmployeeId"/>
<property name="employeeId" unique-key="OrgEmployee"/>

<property name="lastName" index="CustName"/>
<property name="firstName" index="CustName"/>

<many-to-one name="bar" column="barId" foreign-key="FKFooBar"/>

<property name="name" type="my.customtypes.Name"/>
    <column name="last" not-null="true" index="bar_idx" length="30"/>
    <column name="first" not-null="true" index="bar_idx" length="20"/>
    <column name="initial"/>
</property>

<property name="credits" type="integer" insert="false">
    <column name="credits" default="10"/>
</property>

<version name="version" type="integer" insert="false">
    <column name="version" default="0"/>
</property>

<property name="balance" type="float">
    <column name="balance" sql-type="decimal(13,3)"/>
</property>

<property name="foo" type="integer">
    <column name="foo" check="foo > 10"/>
</property>

<class name="Foo" table="foos" check="bar < 100.0">
    ...
    <property name="bar" type="float"/>
</class>

<class name="Customer" table="CurCust">
    <comment>Current customers only</comment>
    ...
</class>

<property name="balance">
    <column name="bal">
        <comment>Balance in USD</comment>
    </column>
</property>

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

<target name="schemaexport">
    <taskdef name="schemaexport"
        classname="org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExportTask"
        classpathref="class.path"/>
    
    <schemaexport
        properties="hibernate.properties"
        quiet="no"
        text="no"
        drop="no"
        delimiter=";"
        output="schema-export.sql">
        <fileset dir="src">
            <include name="**/*.hbm.xml"/>
        </fileset>
    </schemaexport>
</target>

Configuration cfg = ....;
new SchemaUpdate(cfg).execute(false);

<target name="schemaupdate">
    <taskdef name="schemaupdate"
        classname="org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdateTask"
        classpathref="class.path"/>
    
    <schemaupdate
        properties="hibernate.properties"
        quiet="no">
        <fileset dir="src">
            <include name="**/*.hbm.xml"/>
        </fileset>
    </schemaupdate>
</target>

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

<target name="schemavalidate">
    <taskdef name="schemavalidator"
        classname="org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaValidatorTask"
        classpathref="class.path"/>
    
    <schemavalidator
        properties="hibernate.properties">
        <fileset dir="src">
            <include name="**/*.hbm.xml"/>
        </fileset>
    </schemavalidator>
</target>