Appropriate design for DB Meta Data

[jaidengre]

I need to design a tool where I would connect to a database and read metadata about a given table. I need to then generate a XML from this metadata. The metadata should contain the table name, columns, their data type etc. I can use plan JDBC also but I need to know if there is a better DB agnostic way to do it using Springs. Also what would be the pros and cons of a custom solution and using Sprints support if any. In general if there are any other good design approaches for this please let me know. I only want to use open source solutions in my too. Please help.

[pratikbhavsar]

Try: http://schemacrawler.sourceforge.net/