i'm reading the in-depth tutorial for the kitchensink project:

https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS7/The+kitchensink+example+in+depth

and it says "import.sql which Hibernate, the JPA provider in JBoss AS 7, will use to load the initial users into the application when the application starts"

where/how do they do this? where's the "load on startup" functionality?

ok according to this page:

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.3/reference/en/html/session-configuration.html

this line in persistence.xml:

<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create-drop" />

is what tells the app to populate the database, but where's the connection to the import.sql file?

after reading this page:

http://seamframework.org/Community/ImportsqlAndHibernatehbm2ddlautoDoesntWork

users reported that this is an under-documented feature, that when a file called import.sql is found in the root classpath, i.e. here:

jboss-as-web-7.0.2.Final/standalone/deployments/jboss-as-kitchensink.war/WEB-INF/classes/import.sql

it will get automatically run, based on the above line in persistence.xml. so my question is where is this officially documented?

http://docs.jboss.com/books/lightweight/ch03.html#fig3.2