Other use for a Hibernate Mapping file

Question

I am trying to define db dependency for a web based application, and was thinking that perhaps the hibernate mappings used in the application might be importable into some sort of tool to produce a visual ERD diagram. Has anyone tried something like this?

Answer 1

There's a tool called visual nhibernate that does something like this. It's goal isn't to create ERD's but it does show that it's possible

Answer 2

The Hibernate Tools plugin for Eclipse allows to visualize the Data Model with the "Mapping Diagram":