IntelliJ IDEA Hibernate

Question

I'm learning hibernate and I am running into some issues. The book i'm reading is Harnessing Hibernate - Oreilly. They explain everything using ANT, but I'm not really in the moood for the hassle to write such a huge build.xml. So I'm trying to get it to work with IntelliJ.

I managed to make a mapping according to a DB table in my MySQL database, and wrote the bean for it. It worked. But I can't find anywhere on the internet how to generate beans and SQL code, or how to do reverse engineering in IntelliJ. I found loads of tutorials about eclipse, using JBOSS Hibernatetools plugin, and the site claims this support for generating code is already in the standard installation of intelliJ IDEA.

Am I forgetting some configuration, or do I forget to add libraries? I'm trying to find this out but I'm desperate now. Please don't suggest me to use Eclipse, I need IntelliJ for my job.(well I found a job to program java as a student.)

Answer 1

AFAIK, IntelliJ IDEA includes the complete JPA/Hibernate support in its Ultimate Edition:

Generating Persistence Mappings from Database Schema

IntelliJ IDEA allows you to quickly generate persistence mappings from any database schema: Generating Persistance Mappings

Now, the question is, what edition of Intellij IDEA are you using?

Answer 2

If you add the hbm2ddl to your Hibernate config and ask it to create the database schema you'll get it by running a single test or some other code that exercises Hibernate. Once you have it, turn off create.

Let Hibernate do the work.