Next, click ‘Setup’ from Configuration File section. Click on the ‘Add Configuration’ to start the configuration process, as shown belowĪ window ‘Edit Configuration’ will show up, as per the below screen shot. Once Eclipse has restarted, Open hibernate perspective. Accept the license agreement.Ĭreating the hibernate configuration () Un-select all options except ‘Hibernate Tools’ as shown in the below screenshotĬlick ‘Confirm’ and then ‘Finish’. Search for 'JBoss' or 'Hibernate' and click install on the Jboss Tools Open Eclipse and follow the menu, Help -> Eclipse Marketplace. Installing JBoss Eclipse Tools from marketplace

You have some basic knowledge about hibernate or any other ORM tool.

MySQL has a database with at least one table.

This article walks through the steps from installing the JBoss Tools Eclipse plugin to generate hibernate java and xml files. One way to alleviate the pain is to use a reverse engineering tool, which would generate the xml and java files for hibernate by connecting to database.

Writing hibernate class and xmls can be a pain, especially, if you have tons of tables in your database.

Jboss plugin for eclipse