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Hallo Thomas,

don't know if there's a better way, but here's what I usually do:

Be sure to add both JPA and Hibernate facte to the project - the latter
only if you want to use hibernate extensions to JPA, like functions in
"order by" clause, like order by lower(name).

Write your annotated classes.

During development I test with hibernate's auto-schema-creation on and
have the import.sql create initial data.

Later, I use this helper class to generate the schema's DDL:

/**

• Generates DDL using the JPA entity definitions. SQL statements are printed to console and saved into a file named

• schema.sql (in the current working directory).

• BEWARE: Do not directly use the generate table definitions. Please review and at least change foreign keys names

• into something more meaningful (like FK_PARAMETER_2_CALC_RULE) than the defaults (like FKDC9142E99711833E).

• Note that oracle has length limit for names (columns, tables, foreign keys) of 30 characters.

*/
public class DbSchemaGenerator {
private DbSchemaGenerator() {
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
AnnotationConfiguration configuration = new AnnotationConfiguration();

// Select the dialect matching the selected DBMSs

//configuration.setProperty("hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect");
configuration.setProperty("hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9Dialect");

// Add all root packages that contain entities
configuration.addPackage("com.acme.foo

// Add each entity
configuration.addAnnotatedClass(Authorization.class);
...

// Dump formated SQL to console and file
SchemaExport schemaExport = new SchemaExport(configuration);
schemaExport.setOutputFile("schema.sql");
schemaExport.setFormat(true);
schemaExport.setDelimiter(";");
schemaExport.execute(true, // write schema to output
false, // do not export to DB
false, // no drop statements
true // only create statements
);
}
}


Thomas Gülden wrote:

Hi,

I want to start with my business object model, define the OR-Mapping with JPA-annotations and generate my database tables from there. Is this supported from IntelliJ? I couldn't find anything in the documentation.

How are other users accomplishing this task, which tools do you use for this from within IntelliJ?

Kind regards and thanks

Thomas Gülden
Munich, Germany