Hibernate - moving annotations from property (method) level to field level

Question

How do I generate hibernate domain classes from tables with annotations at field level? I used Hibernate Tools project and generated domain classes from the tables in the da

Answer 1

I spent a lot of time reading answers from 5+ years ago without understanding how to do it (especially if you work in Intellij and not Eclipse) and how come this is not already solved. So i found it, here it is, and it is simple:

In Intellij:

1. Create a file orm.xml in the same folder as your persistence.xml with this content

    
        
            
                FIELD
            
        
    

2. Now you can generate your pojos (Generate persistence mapping -> By database schema -> choose your tables etc and don't forget to tick the "Generate JPA Annotations")

Your entities will have field annotations!

@Entity
@Table(name = "user", schema = "public", catalog = "my_db")
public class User {
    @Id
    @Column(name = "id")
    private Integer id;
...
}