A few interesting items:

- I have used GDS a bit, but I didn’t realize that there Hibernate support allow for using lazying loading in the Flex clients. This sounds very powerful and I am excited to check it out.

- He had some interesting thoughts on the possible negative impacts RIA might have and, how GDS can help address them:

I think that with the new RIA developments we face the risk of going back fifteen years ago from an architectural point of view, when the client/server paradigm was dominant. This trend could bring us to stateful clients interacting with stateless servers (i.e. a simple database front-end). While this architecture may be possible and viable for small Flex applications, I think this is not the best choice for large applications.

Thanks Franck for the interview and for the significant open source contribution.

The Hibernate 2 with hbm.xml file way:

<taskdef name=”schemaexport”
classname=”net.sf.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExportTask”
classpathref=”project.class.path” />

<schemaexport
properties=”${resources.db}/database.properties”
quiet=”no”
text=”no”
drop=”yes”
delimiter=”;”
output=”${resources.db}/drop-tables.sql”>
<fileset dir=”${hibernatedoclet.dir}” includes=”**/*.hbm.xml”/>
</schemaexport>

The Hibernate 3 with Annotations way:
- Note you need to download the hibernate-tools.jar

<taskdef name=”hibernatetool”
classname=”org.hibernate.tool.ant.HibernateToolTask”
classpathref=”hibernate.export.classpath” />

<hibernatetool destdir=”${build.db.dir}”>
<annotationconfiguration configurationfile=”hibernate.cfg.xml”/>
<hbm2ddl export=”false”
create=”true”
delimiter=”;”
format=”true”
outputfilename=”create-tables.sql”/>
</hibernatetool>