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    <p>I have pretty much zero experience with Hibernate, though I've used similar persistence libraries in other languages before. I'm working on a Java project that will require a way to define "models" (in the MVC sense) in text configuration files, generate the database tables automatically, and (ideally) be database-backend-agnostic. As far as I can tell from some quick Googling, Hibernate is the <em>only</em> widely-used backend-agnostic Java database library; while I could write my own compatibility layer between my model system and multiple DB backends, that's a debugging endeavor that I'd like to avoid if possible.</p> <p>My question is: Can Hibernate be used to store data whose structure is represented in some other way than an annotated Java class file, such as a HashMap with some configuration object that describes its structure? And, if not, are there any other relatively-stable Java database libraries that could provide this functionality?</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Here's a clearer description of what I'm trying to accomplish:</p> <p>I am writing a data-modeling library. When a certain method of the library is called, and passed a configuration object (loaded from a text file), it should create a new "model," and create a database table for that model if necessary. The library can be queried for items of this model, which should return HashMaps containing the models' fields. It should also allow HashMaps to be saved to the database, provided their structure matches the configuration files. None of these models should be represented by actual compiled Java classes.</p>
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