Help to access metadata of a table from Database like SQL

[sandeep425]

Hello Friends

what are the methods/concepts does the hibernate use to access a metadata of a table fron SQL, ORacle Databases?. I know this is an open-source code. But can anyone provide me a link or doc which has all these details so that my understanding will be more clear?

Any hints or suggestions is also welcome

Thank You friends
-Sam

[sandeep425]

By browsing google, I came to know that the connectionprovider class can be customized to set the catalog name, schema name. And when creating such a connectionprovider object, set the catalogname and schemaname. Then at any time when you use the connection string from this object, then the catalog and schema will be automotically appended using some Properties or mappings which we have to declare.

Can anyone provide me a link or document which explains all this clearly with an example if possible

Thanks in advance
Sam

[sandeep425]

or any hibernate tool which does this information can be helpful to me?. Provided with the API it works on will be great help

Thanks
Sam

[Tolls]

Hibernate has pretty solid documentation, so I'm a bit confused as to what you expect us to be able to provide in addition to that.
Hibernate sits on top of JDBC, so any meta data it gets will be via either the ResultSetMetaData (for a SELECT) or DatabaseMetaData (for a connection) classes.