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

With EclipseLink, you should add property:

As it is said here: http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/documentation/2.4/jpa/extensions/p_ddl_generation.htm

My persistence.xml:

    
        org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider
        LocalMySQL
        entity.Us
        entity.Btl
        entity.Co