Introduction

Hibernate Schema Generation Tools

In Hibernate applications, to perform DML (Data Manipulation Language) operations like insert, update, delete, select. We will use the methods like save(), update(), delete(), get() from org.hibernate.Session interface provided by Hibernate Software.

In Hibernate applications, to perform DDL (Data Definition Language) operations like create, alter, drop, rename, truncate. Hibernate has provided the following implicit tools.

1. SchemaExport
2. SchemaUpdate
3. CodeGeneration

Note

The above Schema generation tools are useful to create tables when we want to work with unknown databases.