Is it possible to create tables in databese by some plugin form JPA projects in Eclipse?

[Witold Marshal]

I have annoted classes (entities). But I can use orm.xml too if there is no solution for entities.

[Bill Gorder]

I assume you are wanting to create your tables based on your mappings (for development only)

If you are using hibernate as your persistence provider have a look at the hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto property.

As far as JPA is concerned you can define your metadata in your annotations as well for example:

@Column(unique=true)

This will generate a unique constraint on the column when the tables are generated.

@Column(nullable=false)

Specifies the nullable attribute for the column

@Column(length=50)
private String someAttribute;

Specifies the length on the column

@Column(precision=8, scale=2)
private float someOtherAttribute;

Specifies the precision and scale.


You get the idea. If there is something in particular you were looking for you will have to let us know.

[Witold Marshal]

Thanks. You helped me a lot.