DDL creation with Maven

Recently I tried to create DDLs with the Hibernate 3 Maven Plugin. Since I was using Hibernate 4 this did not work. Since Hibernate 4 provides support for DDL generation, the integration into a Maven plugin proofed not to be very difficult.

I wrote a quick-and-simple Hibernate 4 Maven Plugin that provides just the DDL generation I needed. Please consider it not to be a replacement for the fine hibernate3-maven-plugin! But if DDL creation is all you need for Hibernate 4, the Hibernate 4 Maven Plugin might come handy to you.

The following POM fragment shows everything the plugin is currently (version 0.1.1) capable of:

<plugin>
  <groupId>de.smartics.maven.plugin</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate4-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>0.1.1</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>export</id>
      <goals>
        <goal>hbm2ddl</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
  <configuration>
    <unitName>jpa-unitname</unitName>
  </configuration>
</plugin>