How to get db and table metadata using Hibernate?

Dear Experts,

I'd like to create a class that returns:

the name of each table in a given database
the name, type and length (if applicable) of each column in each table

I know I can use JDBC to return a ResultSet containing all this, but I'm too lazy, and I'm just starting to work with Hibernate.  Is there an easy way to get this data through Hibernate?

Thanks!
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