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Problem - You want to use the last Hibernate 3 (Object to Relational Mapping Solution) with a code generation tool that automatically generates your Hibernate descriptor files, and build your project with an advanced build tool like Maven2.

Solution - Use maven2-xdoclet2-plugin.

Maven is a popular open source build tool for enterprise Java projects; it can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information (POM file).

XDoclet is an open source code generation engine with the goal of continuous integration. It enables Attribute-Oriented Programming for java. It uses custom JavaDoc-like tags to generate external resource files to support the main Java classes. XDoclet has mainly been used for the auto-generation of EJB descriptors (and related J2EE container technologies). XDoclet2 is a rewrite of the XDoclet engine. It allows you to use Hibernate 3 features, Java5 language features in your model POJOs, and has substantially better error reporting than XDoclet.

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