The hibernate5-ddl-maven-plugin is a simple Maven plugin for creating SQL DDL files for JPA entities. The plugin uses Hibernates API for SchemaExport. The plugin is available from Maven Central.

Please note that this plugin is not an official Hibernate tool. It was created because I needed the functionality provided by this plugin for several projects.

The different plugin variants embeded the latest version of the branch of Hibernate indicated by the artifact name of the plugin. For example the hibernate52-ddl-maven-plugin uses the latest version of the 5.2 branch.

Only Hibernate 5.4 and later are compatible with Java 9 or newer. Therefore the following plugin variants work only with Java 8:

• hibernate50-ddl-maven-plugin
• hibernate51-ddl-maven-plugin
• hibernate52-ddl-maven-plugin
• hibernate53-ddl-maven-plugin

Starting with this version only specific properties from the persistence.xml file are passed to Hibernate for creating the database schema. The properties can be customized. More details can be found in the documentation.

Only minor bugfixes and some code cleanup since version 2.1.0-beta.1.

This release adds some features requested by users of the plugin. The first new feature is the option to use custom dialects. Also it is now possible to customise the name of the output files and the output path (Issue #11).

This release is a beta version which means that there might be some bugs. Also there are things in the code which need to be addressed before the final release.

Starting with version 2.0.0 the plugin is provided in different variants build against the most current Hibernate versions. For example, 2.0.0 is available in three variants: One build against the latest version of Hibernate 5.0 (Hibernate 5.0 is used in Wildfly 10.1) one for the lastest version of the 5.1 branch one for the lastest version of the 5.2 branch.

The code is available at GitHub at http://github.com/jpdigital/hibernate5-ddl-maven-plugin. The projects web site is also available on GitHub at http://jpdigital.github.io/hibernate5-ddl-maven-plugin.