How to create tables with hibernate recomandations

Question

I'm relatively new to hibernate technology, and want to create an application with that. I have read that is not recomanded to use "hibernate's creation tabels" option (hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto) for a production environment. Does that mean that i need to create first tables and after that my POJOs classes or this recomandations is only for update value of hbm2ddl.auto?

Thank advance!

Answer 1

hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto is recommended for everything else except production. Especially for development. So feel free to use it.

Only when deploying on production use some database scripts to update your schema correctly.