Custom Meta atribute in hibernate xml?

Question

What is the purpose of custom meta tags? I have seen them at class level and at property level.

Example of Propery level level:
</property>
    <property name="name" column="name" type="string">
      <meta attribute="Test"/>
    </property>

Example of class level
<class name="mypackage.user" table="user">
    <meta attribute="Test"/>
......
....
</class>

How does hibernate use this custom values in meta tag?

Answer 1

In Hibernate, custom meta tags used while generating Java POJOs from hbm config file. Refer https://docs.jboss.org/tools/archive/3.0.1.GA/en/hibernatetools/html/codegen.html. Note that there is a list of Supported meta tags.