Hibernate Newbie: Current data getting deleted

[dangerous hamster]

Hi Folks,

Complete hibernate newbie here. I've set up a small web app using hibernate, spring etc. This is all up and running and I can't see any issues apart from one (there always is eh)

When I first start the application (Tomcat 5.5) the current data that I have on the database table gets deleted ?? I don't want this happening but I can't find anything that tells me this is correct behavior or how to stop it ?

Any ideas ?

[Marten Deinum]

Change your hibernate configuration. My guess is that you have enabled that the tables need to be (re)created on application startup.

[dangerous hamster]

Yep that was it thanks very much...

<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>

changed to

<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>

Job done