Well, there is the Maven Hibernate3 Plugin if you don't want to mix Ant and Maven (which is a good idea here IMO). It has a hbm2java goal which is bound by default to the generate-sources phase. Refer to the website of the Mojo for more details but the setup of the plugin might looks like something like this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate3-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>hbm2java</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<components>
<component>
<name>hbm2java</name>
<implementation>configuration</implementation>
<outputDirectory>target/generated-sources/hibernate3</outputDirectory>
</component>
</components>
<componentProperties>
<drop>true</drop>
<jdk5>true</jdk5>
<configurationfile>/src/main/resources/hibernate.cfg.xml</configurationfile>
</componentProperties>
</configuration>
</plugin>
EDIT: The plugin actually looks for .hbm.xml in target/classes to generate the java source files. So, if you put your mapping files in src/main/resources, they will get copied into target/classes during the process-resources phase which is invoked by the plugin and things will just work. I've just tested this with the following sample project:
maven-hibernate3-testcase
|-- pom.xml
`-- src
|-- main
| |-- java
| `-- resources
| |-- Person.hbm.xml
| `-- hibernate.cfg.xml
`-- test
`-- java
The pom.xml is almost empty, it just contains the plugin configuration seen above and a junit dependency. The hibernate.cfg.xml contains:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<!-- Database connection settings -->
<property name="connection.driver_class">org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver</property>
<property name="connection.url">jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/mydatabase</property>
<property name="connection.username">app</property>
<property name="connection.password">app</property>
<!-- JDBC connection pool (use the built-in) -->
<property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>
<!-- SQL dialect -->
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyDialect</property>
<!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout -->
<property name="show_sql">false</property>
<!-- Mapping files -->
<mapping resource="Person.hbm.xml" />
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
And Person.hbm.xml looks as follow:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping
PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="Person" table="person">
<id name="id" type="int">
<generator class="increment" />
</id>
<property name="name" column="cname" type="string" />
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>
With this configuration, running mvn install generates Person.java as shown below:
$ cat target/generated-sources/hibernate3/Person.java
// default package
// Generated Dec 14, 2009 2:19:22 PM by Hibernate Tools 3.2.2.GA
/**
* Person generated by hbm2java
*/
public class Person implements java.io.Serializable {
private int id;
private String name;
public Person() {
}
public Person(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public int getId() {
return this.id;
}
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getName() {
return this.name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}
Everything works as described.
