reveng.xml file is created after step 5.Īfter Main tab, Go to Exporters tab. Then click Setup button and choose reveng.xml file path. When package name is specified, created Java classes' package is set to this package. You can write packet name in the src folder into Package section. Note that you should also choose Reverse engineer from JDBC Connection option, otherwise Java classes will not be created. And choose src folder path in the Output directory. At the Main tab choose the configuration created in the step 4. Hibernate Code Generation Configuration screen is seen in the following image.

Now open Hibernate Code Generation Configuration area.ġ0. After clicking Finish button click Arrow icon as seen in the following image. After choosing the tables which will be converted into Java POJO classes, click Include button and lastl click Finish buttonĩ. Click Refresh button, you can see now tables in the database. After downloading add this jar file into External Jars section by clicking File->PropertiesĨ. To download necessary jar file please click. To solve this problem, you have to add mysql connection provider jar file as External Library.ħ. Then click Refresh button, however you will see an exception such as loading database driver class error. Choose the configuration created at step 4 in the Console Configuration section. Click Next button in Opened Window and later new Window is opened. Again right click onto src folder then New -> Hibernate Reverse Engineering File(reveng.xml) is choosenĦ. At this window, we configure database settings to connect to our db and choose Create Console Configuration option.ĥ. Click Next button in Opened Window and then new Window is opened.

In the Package Explorer tab, right click onto src folder, then choose New -> Hibernate Configuration File (.cfg.xml)Ĥ. Change windows perspective into Hibernate by clicking Window then Open Perspective buttons.ģ. Please install this pluginĪfter these processes are completed, do the following steps:Ģ. You can see the results containing JBoss Tools(Kepler) plugin. Then write jboss tools kepler into Find area. After running Eclipse program, click Help then choose Eclipse MarketPlaceģ. First of all, download Eclipse Kepler 4.3 then run itĢ. Now lets start the process by using Eclipse Kepler and Hibernate Toolbar Plugin.ġ. This process is called as Reverse Engineering. Thus, we can get rid of converting manually database tables into Java classes. With Hibernate JBoss Toolbar, we will do reverse engineering to create Plain Old Java Classes(POJO), Dao classes and hbm.xml files from database tables.

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