Installed Hibernate Tools plugin for Eclipse but no access to code generation feature

Question

I'm using Eclipse Helios SR2 and I've just installed the Hibernate tools plugin (via the update site : http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/helios/). I now have the wizards to create the configuration file, mapping file and so on but something seems wrong : I don't have the "Hibernate code generation menu"?! Consequently, I'm not able to generate the domain classes based upon an existing database schema.

Can anyone explain what I am missing?

Answer 1

the "Hibernate code generation" menu appeared only when I am in the Hibernate perspective

Not really, try with the following steps

• Menu -> Window -> Customize Perspective (current perspective)
• Command Groups Availability -> CHECKED the Hibernate Code Generation