You can use the openjpa.jdbc.SynchronizeMappings property. See: http://incubator.apache.org/openjpa/docs/openjpa-0.9.0-incubating/ manual/manual.html#ref_guide_mapping_synch On Dec 9, 2006, at 5:53 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote: > Is there a way to make openjpa create tables automatically for me? > It would make testing much easier. > > -dain