Generate JPA 2 Entities from Existing Database

Generate JPA 2 Entities from existing Database

You can use a plugin like Eclipse Dali to do the trick for you. You can refer to the documentation, section 3.11 Generating Entities from Tables.

I do not know of any specific vendor independent tool to do this, though.

Generate JPA2 Entities from Existing Database using Maven

SInce you are using hibernate the default option would be hibernate3-maven-plugin, more specifically the hibernate3:hbm2java goal configured with <ejb3>true</ejb3>. It will generate annotated pojos (most annotations are from the standard javax.persistence package, but it might also include custom org.hibernate.annotations) .

Check out John Citizen's answer at JBoss Community for sample configuration.

How to create entity classes using database for all the existing tables?

If you use JPA for persistence, you can use "JPA tools" provided by Eclipse to generate java entity class from tables.

Here is the [tutorial][1]

[1]: http://shengwangi.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-to-create-java-classes-from-tables.html on my personal website.

Entity generator from database

You can use DAL4J.jar , I think it will fulfill your need. visit http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dal4j/

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