Creating DDL scripts from JPA/Hibernate Annotation Classes Using ANT - sql

Question

I would like to generate SQL DDL scripts from Hibernate/JPA Annotation Classes using ANT.
Below is the ANT script that I wrote based on Hibernate Dev Docs URL: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.1/devguide/en-US/html_single/
<project name="yourmarketnet" default="all" basedir=".">
<target name="ddl_generation">
<!-- paths to required jars -->
<path location="web/WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-annotations.jar" />
<path location="web/WEB-INF/lib/ejb3-persistence.jar" />
<path location="web/WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-entitymanager.jar" />
<path location="web/WEB-INF/lib/javaassist.jar" />
<path location="web/WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-tools.jar"/>
<taskdef name="hibernatetool" classname="org.hibernate.tool.ant.HibernateToolTask.jar">
<classpath path="${build.dir}/web/WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-tools.jar"/>
</taskdef>
<!-- output destination -->
<hibernatetool destdir="${build.dir}">
<!-- were the annotation beans files are located-->
<classpath>
<path location="${build.dir}/web/WEB-INF/classes/com/yourmarketnet/beans" />
</classpath>
<!-- list exporters here -->
<hbm2ddl
export="false"
update="false"
drop="true"
create="true"
outputfilename="myApps.ddl"
delimiter=";"
format="false"
haltonerror="true"/>
</hibernatetool>
</target>
</project>
Im getting ERROR taskdef class org.hibernate.tool.ant.HibernateToolTask cannot be found
using the classloader AntClassLoader[]
I also checked to see if hibernate-tools.jar was actually in the path and it was (C:\Users\naim\Documents\NetBeansProjects\yourmarketnet\build\web\WEB-INF\lib\hibernate-tools.jar)
Can someone please tell me step by step how to fix/debug this issue , thanks.

Answer 1

Error message clearly tells you that ant can't find your tools. When you declare
<taskdef name="hibernatetool" classname="org.hibernate.tool.ant.HibernateToolTask" >
<classpath path="${build.dir}/web/WEB-INF/lib"/>
</taskdef>
it's already wrong because tool classes are not in directory but in jar. Secondly, your intent seems to be to use ${build.dir} as output location, so why would it contain tool classes? Anyway, you didn't even define this directory.
So if you really have your hibernate-tools.jar in web/WEB-INF/lib, you probably want something like
<taskdef name="hibernatetool" classname="org.hibernate.tool.ant.HibernateToolTask" >
<classpath path="web/WEB-INF/lib/hibernate-tools.jar"/>
</taskdef>
Note that it's relative to your project directory.