How to configure maven hbm2hbmxml and hbm2java to run one after the other in mvn clean install

Question

I need to be able to call mvn clean install and have maven call hibernate3:hbm2hbmxml to generate the mapping files from a database and after than call hbm2java to get the J

Answer 1

Maven lifecycle

mvn clean dependency:copy-dependencies package

If this were to be executed, the clean phase will be executed first (meaning it will run all preceeding phases of the clean lifecycle, plus the clean phase itself), and then the dependency:copy-dependencies goal, before finally executing the package phase (and all its preceeding build phases of the default lifecycle).

So, perhaps:

mvn clean hibernate3:hbm2hbmxml hibernate3:hbm2java package

That said, I'd recommend against perpetually generating classes. This makes you very inflexible.

After your comment, it seems like an "unwise" behaviour from the hibernate plugin. You can bypass that by "manually" copying the required files to the desired directory, using the Maven antrun plugin.