You might want to take a look at the Grails Migration Plugin (which uses Hibernate and Liquibase "under the covers") It allows you to write your domain classes

You might want to take a look at the Grails Migration Plugin (which uses Hibernate and Liquibase "under the covers") It allows you to write your domain classes in a Groovy DSL, called GORM http://grails.github.io/grails-doc/latest/guide/GORM.html http://grails.github.io/grails-doc/latest/guide/GORM.html and generate SQL and SQL migrations as you change your classes. Here's the Getting Started page from the documentation http://grails-plugins.github.io/grails-database-migration/docs/manual/guide/gettingStarted.html http://grails-plugins.github.io/grails-database-migration/do... There is a standalone GORM that allows you to use the Groovy DSL without Grails, I'm not sure how the Migration plugin could be made to work with that.