I suggest checking out http://www.liquibase.org/
It's the best open source database change management tool I've come across to date. On Mar 20, 11:18 pm, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well. I think it depends. I know that if you use the hibernate provider that > you can set a property to automatically create/update the schema when it > runs. You can look at the JPA Demo site in the Lift repo: > > http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/blob/794cac5abf6b1ae5502f6321847f6186fc... > > The relevant property is "hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" > > I haven't used TopLink but it appears to have a subset of this > functionality: > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/JPA/essentials/... > > The caveat is that with Hibernate it can alter existing tables to match > changes in your entities, but toplink appears to do a drop-then-add, which > kind of sucks. I haven't looked at JPOX or any other JPA impls. > > Derek > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Alex <a...@liivid.com> wrote: > > > I'm going through the recently announced book and JPA looks pretty > > attractive. There is no mention of schema management - e.g. creating > > and modifying tables. Is there any or is that all done manually? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
