Hibernate : Empty Table recreated when spring starts

Each time I'm starting Tomcat/Spring, hibernate recreates the mapped table (only one table is mapped).
Below the applicationcontext and the Entity Class.

Many thanks in advance.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
		   
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/task 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task-3.0.xsd">		   
		   
	<context:component-scan base-package="com.stockdomain">
	    <context:exclude-filter type="annotation" expression="org.springframework.stereotype.Controller"/>
	</context:component-scan>

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
      <property name="driverClassName"><value>org.postgresql.Driver</value></property>
      <property name="url"><value>jdbc:postgresql://localhost/db_finance</value></property>
      <property name="username"><value>xxxx</value></property>
      <property name="password"><value>xxxx</value></property>
    </bean>  
  
    <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />

		<property name="annotatedClasses">
     		<list>
       			<value>com.stockdomain.domain.Stock</value>
     		</list>
 		</property>
		<property name="hibernateProperties">
			<props>
				<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</prop>
				<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
				<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>
			</props>
		</property>
	</bean>
    
    <bean id="txManager"
        class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory">
	            <ref bean="sessionFactory" />
        </property>
    </bean>
    
    
    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager"/>    	     
    
</beans>

package com.stockdomain.domain;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
@Table(name = "stock")
public class Stock {

@Id
	@GeneratedValue
	private int id;
	@Column
	private String code;
	@Column
	private String name;
	@Column
	private String isin;
	@Column
	private String exchangeCode;
	@Column
	private String countryCode;
	@Column
	private String subSectorCode;
	@Column
	private String active;
	@Column
	private String liquid;

public void setId(int id) {
		this.id = id;
	}

public int getId() {
		return id;
	}

public String getCode() {
		return code;
	}

public void setCode(String code) {
		this.code = code;
	}

public String getName() {
		return name;
	}

public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}

public String getIsin() {
		return isin;
	}

public void setIsin(String isin) {
		this.isin = isin;
	}

public String getExchangeCode() {
		return exchangeCode;
	}

public void setExchangeCode(String exchangeCode) {
		this.exchangeCode = exchangeCode;
	}

public String getCountryCode() {
		return countryCode;
	}

public void setCountryCode(String countryCode) {
		this.countryCode = countryCode;
	}

public String getSubSectorCode() {
		return subSectorCode;
	}

public void setSubSectorCode(String subSectorCode) {
		this.subSectorCode = subSectorCode;
	}

public String getActive() {
		return active;
	}

public void setActive(String active) {
		this.active = active;
	}

public String getLiquid() {
		return liquid;
	}

public void setLiquid(String liquid) {
		this.liquid = liquid;
	}

}

Isn't that a Hibernate FAQ? Anyway it does that because you tell it to do so in line 42 of what you posted.

This 42

<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>

Mark

I removed this property, and all works fine now.

Many thanks !!!

Frank