Hibern8IDE

Hibern8IDE is an interactive graphical tool for Hibernate 2.x that allows you to

load a Hibernate configuration and Hibernate mapping files
enter and execute HQL queries
enter and execute Criteria (and query by example, QBE) queries
browse the result object graph

It uses Swing and can be started standalone, in your IDE, or directly from your Hibernate application. Hibern8IDE is available separately with the Hibernate Extensions package. See Hibern8IDE in action in this flash animation. Dwight Shih has written a short tutorial about Hibern8IDE.

Property editor for objects (lower left)

Static graph for metadata + object graph for the executed query (notice the blue "unitialized proxy" which marks the boundaries of what was fetched).

Hibern8IDE could not have been made possible without the following OSS Swing related projects:

Docking framework: http://www.eleritec.net/projects/docking.html

Look'n'Feel & Layout: https://jgoodies.dev.java.net/

Propertysheet: http://www.L2FProd.com

Graph component: http://www.jgraph.org

Java Object Inspector: http://www.programmers-friend.org/JOI