Auto generate data schema from JPA annotated entity classes

Question

I\'m using JPA (Hibernate\'s implementation) to annotate entity classes to persist to a relational database (MySQL or SQL Server). Is there an easy way to auto generate the

Answer 1

Here's an explaination of how to use the hibernate SchemaExport class to do exactly what you want.

http://jandrewthompson.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-generate-ddl-scripts-from.html