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I am having tables created by a DBA. And I want to have entity classes for each table for further querying. Can any one suggest how to automatically create the entity classes using eclipse?
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To use code-first for an existing database, right click on your project in Visual Studio -> Add -> New Item.. Select ADO.NET Entity Data Model in the Add New Item dialog box and specify the model name (this will be a context class name) and click on Add. This will open the Entity Data Model wizard as shown below.
Generate a database entityClick Code | Generate or press Alt+Insert . Select the entity that you want to generate and press Enter .
It will create entity classes for all the tables & views in your existing database and configure them with data annotations attributes and Fluent API. To use code-first for an existing database, right click on your project in Visual Studio -> Add -> New Item..
Using a simple Scaffold command, you can generate a models base on your existing Database. Below is the command format to create a model from an existing database in Entity Framework. If you want to see this in actual project creation, you can proceed with the steps below.
Select ADO.NET Entity Data Model in the Add New Item dialog box and specify the model name (this will be a context class name) and click on Add. This will open the Entity Data Model wizard as shown below. Select Code First from database option and click Next. Now, select the data connection for the existing database.
Select ADO.NET Entity Data Model in the Add New Item dialog box and specify the model name (this will be a context class name) and click on Add. This will open the Entity Data Model wizard as shown below.
If you use JPA for persistence, you can use "JPA tools" provided by Eclipse to generate java entity class from tables.
Here is the tutorial
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You can generate classes using Hibernate Tools. There are two ways to generate these classes which is called as Reverse Engineering and Code Generation[dead link] -
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