Re: [eclipselink-users] Generate orm.xml from Database schema

[Tom Ware <tom.ware@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think there would be some issues related to the fact that most things in JPA 
are defaulted.  I am not sure you could get reasonable orm.xml from the writer.

-Tom

James Sutherland wrote:
> If you can't find an tool that does this, you may be able to leverage some
> code in EclipseLink to do this.  Because EclipseLink uses EclipseLink Moxy
> to read in the orm.xml, it also means we can write it back out.  If you have
> an annotated model (such as generated from Dali), you could attempt to use
> EclipseLink to write it out to orm.xml.  Refer to the class,
> XMLEntityMappingsWriter in EclipseLink, it probably will not be trivial, but
> should be possible, I think.
>
>
>
> Neil Hauge wrote:
> > Eclipse Dali and Oracle JDeveloper are both able to generate a
> > persistence.xml and annotated entities from tables, but neither support
> > generating the mapping metadata directly to orm.xml at this time. 
> >
> > Neil 
> >
> > James Sutherland wrote:
> >
> >   I believe Eclipse Dali offers this functionality, also I think Oracle
> > JDeveloper.
> >
> >
> > Abhinav Shah wrote:
> >   
> >   
> >     Hi,
> >
> > I have a oracle database schema ready (with tables and relationships).
> >
> > I want to generate my orm.xml and persistence.xml from it.
> >
> > Are there any available tools for the same?
>
>
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