Iterate over your whole DB using hibernate
In this post I'll assume you already have your hibernate object corresponding to your DB schema. What will we try to achieve here? I will iterate all of the DB using hibernate objects, and here is a little java program which will attempt to achieve just that: import org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration; import org.hibernate.HibernateException; import org.hibernate.SessionFactory; import org.hibernate.Session; import org.hibernate.Query; import org.hibernate.metadata.ClassMetadata; import java.util.Map; /** * Created by IntelliJ IDEA. * User: avih * Date: May 11, 2010 * Time: 7:43:37 AM */ public class Main { private static final SessionFactory ourSessionFactory; static { try { ourSessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration(). configure("hibernate.cfg.xml"). buildSessionFactory(); } catch (Throwable ex) { throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex); } } ...