Comments on: Creating an Index with Hibernate http://javablog.co.uk/2010/01/04/creating-an-index-with-hibernate/ by Java coders, for Java coders Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:24:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: sub http://javablog.co.uk/2010/01/04/creating-an-index-with-hibernate/comment-page-1/#comment-101852 sub Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:24:38 +0000 http://javablog.co.uk/?p=214#comment-101852 <p>what if my product is downloaded by lot of people without db knowledge and they wants single click installation. creating tables,indexes etc should happen programatically.</p> <p>So i think creating table , index etc should be part of jpa spec</p> what if my product is downloaded by lot of people without db knowledge and they wants single click installation. creating tables,indexes etc should happen programatically.

So i think creating table , index etc should be part of jpa spec

]]> By: Diego Bravo http://javablog.co.uk/2010/01/04/creating-an-index-with-hibernate/comment-page-1/#comment-95546 Diego Bravo Thu, 20 May 2010 23:29:25 +0000 http://javablog.co.uk/?p=214#comment-95546 <p>IMO this "facility" must be carefully restricted to development environments. It would be catastrophic is a bug in the application goes to the point of issuing a remaining DROP TABLE X; CREATE TABLE X in production.</p> <p>Since this CAN happen, I simply avoid using it. Ever. Yet I can't understand why it would be preferable to executing an SQL script. Learning how to execute a shell script or SQL script should be easier than learning a convoluted Hibernate API to do non standard operations. Of course YMMV.</p> IMO this “facility” must be carefully restricted to development environments. It would be catastrophic is a bug in the application goes to the point of issuing a remaining DROP TABLE X; CREATE TABLE X in production.

Since this CAN happen, I simply avoid using it. Ever. Yet I can’t understand why it would be preferable to executing an SQL script. Learning how to execute a shell script or SQL script should be easier than learning a convoluted Hibernate API to do non standard operations. Of course YMMV.

]]> By: Sam http://javablog.co.uk/2010/01/04/creating-an-index-with-hibernate/comment-page-1/#comment-89245 Sam Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:39:35 +0000 http://javablog.co.uk/?p=214#comment-89245 <p>@Caleb Hibernate can create schemas automatically from the Java classes. But if using Hibernate to communicate with an existing schema, then you're right, this should be part of the schema.</p> @Caleb Hibernate can create schemas automatically from the Java classes. But if using Hibernate to communicate with an existing schema, then you’re right, this should be part of the schema.

]]> By: Caleb http://javablog.co.uk/2010/01/04/creating-an-index-with-hibernate/comment-page-1/#comment-89202 Caleb Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:07:21 +0000 http://javablog.co.uk/?p=214#comment-89202 <p>Why would you use Hibernate to create an index instead of just designing the right indexes into your database schema in the first place?</p> Why would you use Hibernate to create an index instead of just designing the right indexes into your database schema in the first place?

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