How to configure hibernate-tools with maven to generate hibernate.cfg.xml, *.hbm.xml, POJOs and DAOs

Question

can any one tell me how to force maven to precede mapping .hbm.xml files in the automatically generated hibernate.cfg.xml file with package path?

My general idea is,

Answer 1

how can I configure hbm2cfgxml so that hibernate.cfg.xml looks like below (...)

I have a project that is using hbm2cfgxml and the entries do reflect the packagename in the path to the hbm.xml. So there is clearly something wrong on your side. Here are a few remarks:

• I would bind hbm2cfgxml on the generate-resources phase, you're not generating sources
• I wouldn't generate the file in src/main/resources but in target/classses (why do you put generated stuff in the source tree, you want a clean to clean it).
• There is a typo, it's configurationfile, not configurationFile but...
• Why the hell do you have a in the configuration of hbm2cfgxml? You want to generate it here... I would remove it.

Update: You should put the informations required to connect to the database in src/main/resources/database.properties (that's the default value of the propertyfile property), not in src/main/resources/hibernate.cfg.xml (remove that file). Below a sample database.properties:

hibernate.connection.driver_class=org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver
hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:derby://localhost:1527//home/pascal/Projects/derbyDBs/EMPLDB
hibernate.connection.username=APP
hibernate.connection.password=APP
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect

And as I said, remove the src/main/resources/hibernate.cfg.xml file, you want to generate it.

is there a way to tell maven to copy resources to the target folder before executing hbm2java? (...)

The hbm2java goal Invokes the execution of the lifecycle phase process-resources prior to executing itself (from the documentation). So that's the default behavior and occurs with hibernate3:hbm2java or generate-sources if hbm2java is bound to it.