hibernate: create table with names in lowercase

Question

Hibernate: I want to have hibernate automatically generate my tables with names in lowercase.

For example, if my class is called com.myapp.domain.Customer, hibernate will generate a table named Customer. I want it to be called customer. I know I can use the @Table annotation to specify the table name per class. But I want it to happen "automagically".

Answer 1

Isn'it it the job for NamingStrategy?

You would get the name of the entity managed (i.e. Customer) and should decide the table name used (entityName.toLowerCase() in your case).

One thing I am not sure is if the NamingStrategies are taken into account when generating tables (hbm2ddl).