Does Hibernate create tables in the database automatically

Question

Upon reading this (archived) tutorial, they have not mentioned anything over creating tables in the DB. Does the Hibernate handle it automatically by creating tables and fie

Answer 1

Yes, Hibernate can be configured by way of the hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto property in the hibernate.cfg.xml file to automatically create tables in your DB in order to store your entities in them if the table doesn't already exist.

This can be handy during development where a new, in-memory, DB can be used and created a new on every run of the application or during testing.