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20030106 Monday January 06, 2003

I'm lovin' Eclipse and its plugins (CVS, Hibernate) After working with Eclipse pretty heavily for the last week - I am beginning to become one of those guys that cannot live without an IDE. It's unfortunate in one sense, but it's great because it sure is saving me a lot of time. I love the "Organize Imports" feature, especially on the package level. Use it with caution if you've got generated classes - or add the generated classes to your classpath. I also really like the Jalopy Beautifier. I'm sure IDEA has these features too - if it doesn't, it should! Another cool plugin I found last week was one from the Eclipse team to hide CVS directories.

This morning, I found that the Hibernate team has released a new plugin for Eclipse - the Hibernator.

*** Hibernator - Hibernate plugin for Eclipse ***

Provides an Eclipse view to create and edit Hibernate mapping files (.hbm.xml).

Note this plugin will only work with Eclipse 2 (WSAD 5) and above

* Installation

- Unzip hibernator-0.9.zip into <eclipse-install>/plugins - Restart Eclipse

* Using the plugin

Go to menu Window->Show View->Other and select Hibernator

Open up some Java source and the plugin will either display the mapping file <class-name>.hbm.xml or a generated version

To save the contents of the mapping file right click in the window and select "Save"

Report any bugs / Submit patches to - http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernator.

I doubt I'll use this as I'm using XDoclet to generate my Hibernate mapping files from POJOs. However, the CodeGenerator for Hibernate is being re-vamped to allow for generation of .java files from an .hbm.xml file. Now if I could hook this into generation of Struts' ValidatorForms, I might actually use it. Posted in Java at Jan 06 2003, 07:50:12 AM MST Add a Comment

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