Hibernate Eclipse Plugin

Question

Can anyone suggest me a good eclipse plug-in for Hibernate. The plug in should take care of generation of POJO classes, hbm mapping files. Also provide a nice interface to execute HQL queries. Any help would be highly appreciated. Regards, Nitin Ware

Answer 1

The Hibernate guys provides such a plugin for Eclipse part of the Hibernate Tools. It supports Reverse Engineering from an existing database to generate entities and mapping files and offers an HQL Editor and a Criteria Editor. From the official website:

Console: The Hibernate Console perspective allows you to configure database connections, provides visualization of classes and their relationships and allows you to execute HQL queries interactively against your database and browse the query results.

Reverse Engineering: The most powerful feature of Hibernate Tools is a database reverse engineering tool that can generate domain model classes and Hibernate mapping files, annotated EJB3 entity beans, HTML documentation or even an entire JBoss Seam application in seconds!

Answer 2

I think the most popular is http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/hibernate-tools