title: Hibernate: make database only if not exists
body: <p>I want Hibernate make database file (SQLite), but only if not exists.</p>
  
  <p>Now in hibernate.cfg.xml I have this line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto"&gt;create&lt;/property&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem is that database file is been creating in all the time, even the file exists.</p>